Tokyo part 2

The Mori art museum in Tokyo was having an exhibit of Chinese sculptor Ai Weiwei's works. The exhibit was very cool and made me want to learn more about Ai.

Ai collaborated with Herzog and de Meuron in designing the bird's nest for the Beijing Olympics. There were some interesting photos of the construction of the nest in the exhibit.




My favorite pieces in the exhibit were Weiwei's sculptures made out of tea. This one is made up of one cubic meter of Yunnan Province tea, compressed to weigh a ton -- the same weight one cubic meter of water would weigh.

This "teahouse" is made up of 432 cubes and prisms of compressed tea.