Sunflower Seeds

Personally, I prefer pumpkin seeds but the latest exhibit at one of my favorite museums, the Tate Modern, is intriguing.

From NPR and the NYT...

How many people does it take to paint 100 million tiny porcelain sunflower seeds? Oh, just about 1,600 people in the small Chinese city of Jingdezhen. That is, in essence, the latest installation at Tate Modern: Artist Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds fills a room about 1/3 of an acre in size.

Sunflower seeds are a ubiquitous Chinese street snack, and in Mr. Ai’s piece they are thought to represent both fellowship and the enforced conformity experienced during the Cultural Revolution, when propaganda posters depicted Chairman Mao as the sun and Chinese people as sunflowers turning toward him.