Ai Weiwei:

My name is Ai Weiwei. I'm 67 years old, nationality, I'm Chinese.  I live in Europe. This work is probably one of the most popular impressionist works by Monet and surprisingly, he spent his last 20 years painting about 250 works like this. About this water lily pond. So it's really a kind of epic type of work. To structure it, I need 650,000 Lego pieces. And my relation to it is , one, we live in Xinjiang. My father was exiled in this underground dugout. And you see the image here, the black hole, it's the black hole there. So, I integrated my youth and my father's exiled situation into this, because my father, in that particular time when I was 10, he told me the story. He was in Paris, and his artworks was selected by Monet's independent salon, which was a big deal for a young artist. So, this work, basically, wrapped up my father's tragic life. Studied in Paris, come back to China, joined the revolution, then, being exiled. And I grew up in there. And that experience made me today.