Ai Weiwei filled Turbine Hall in London with exactly 100,000,000 porcelain sunflower seeds. Each sunflower was handmade by craftsmen from the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. The meaning behind the exhibit is still a question, but the process of creating each sunflower seed employed many people across Jingdezhen. The exhibit used to be open to the public, but dust was being stirred up and considered unhealthy for people to breathe in. The exhibit is now shut down and only allowed to be viewed and not interacted with. I chose this exhibit because even though it does not have an understood purpose, it provided jobs for several people. It also created a sense of purpose among everyone that contributed to the project.
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