Ai Weiwei:

By 1993, after 12 years in the United States, I made a final decision to go back to China. I went back and immediately my brother brought me to the antique market. That's why I have to come back to these vases. So I started collecting. I'm so drawn by so many antiquity in the flea market. That time, maybe it was the last chance so many antiquity ever being in flea market because the whole of China started digging and building highways and households. A lot have since been discovered.

Yeah, we did the photo. I asked my brother, I said, I'm going to drop this one, can you catch it with my F3 camera, Nikon. So I said, are you ready? He said, yes, so I started to drop it. You hear the crack and you have to clean up the dust. Ironically, this later being seen as some kind of iconic image of me. They call me some kind of, I don't know, icon against authority or culture, which is okay, but that's the story.