Thursday, April 03, 2025

2025.4.3. Ai, Wei Wei at SAM

4/3 First Thursday. Special exhibition at Seattle Art Museum, titled Ai, Rebel". Anticipating crowd, I reserved the very first entrance to the exhibit: 10:20am. It didn't disappoint. Here are some of the objects that I liked. The stools are joined by a leg, without any glue or nail. The snake is made of backpacks. I'm not sure about the bikes, but I really liked the wooden map of China. Made of verticle columns joined together without glue or nail. Looks like a single wood. This large room is pictures made of simple legos. Other items are old vases painted with automative paint, bricks from old houses, bike parts, a real side of a house with bullet holes as large as my hand, a replica of the room where he was locked in and interegated. A pile of ceramic sunflower seeds. Lots of video footage documenting his house arrest, illegal immigrants crossing ocean, ...

I left at 11, because I had to attend a Zoom meeting. By then, there were already a lot of people. May go again next month.

Before the art museum, I went to UW's Quad again for cherry blossom. It is much better today, even though it was cloudy. A lot less people. Some pedals are already on the ground. Maybe another week of glory.