Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist, architect, and political activist who is in constant battle with the Chinese government. Ai Weiwei uses art and social media to combat against his nation’s government. As the Tate Modern worded in their interpretation text, of his exhibit, they said,”Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds challenges our first impressions: what you see is not what you see, and what you see is not what it means (Tate Modern 1.)” The 100 million seeds look like real sunflower seed husks and people have even asked Ai Weiwei if they could try to eat them. In this piece, Ai Weiwei had over 1600 people working in small workshops handcrafting the 100 million seeds out of porcelain to form a seemingly infinite landscape (Tate Modern 2.) The piece
