Made in China

inspired by Chinese police detain artist Ai Weiwei

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/china-ai-weiwei-detained-police-beijing

I.

Marble floor of

A vast room

Blanketed with porcelain pumpkin seeds

Each of millions, delicately detailed

In Jingdezhen

Hundreds of hands

Working as one

Teenage boys, old women

Meticulously miming nature

II.

9,000 children’s backpacks

Candy colored

Arranged in Chinese characters

'她幸福地生活了七年在這個世界上

'She lived happily for seven years in this world'

In memory of

Sichuan earthquake

When China’s schools crumbled like cheap toys

III.

His father, Ai Qing, a poet,

Whose hands grew hard in forced work camps

of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Yet still, he is unbowed

IV.

Studio demolished

To create ‘cultural corridor’

Attacked by police

Brutalized while filing complaint

In custody, again

V.

What government breaks the fingers of its artists?

Ai Weiwei

We wait for you

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/11/tate-modern-sunflower-seeds-review