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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/arts/design/ai-weiwei-dioramas-depict-his-imprisonment.html

AI WEIWEI

by Sophie Elmhirst, 10/11/12

Ai Weiwei doesn’t usually dream. He doesn’t remember his dreams, or if he does they are deflatingly

banal. Last night, for example, he says he dreamed he was hungry and feasting on cucumbers, but 

in his eagerness bit his tongue and woke himself up – “Ow!”. His unconscious imaginings haven’t 

always been so prosaic. When Ai was detained at Beijing Capital Airport last year and held in a

secret police cell for 81 days