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Hong Yi (Malaysia/China) - Wei Wei Who (2011)

The artist without a paintbrush as she calls herself, Hong Yi aka Red, is a Sabah-born artist-architect working in Shanghai. She has caught the public eye with her unique large scale artwork, starting with the portrait of renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei using sunflower seeds:

I was inspired last weekend to do a portrait of Weiwei. Initially the idea was to just do a small A4 sized portrait of him, but then I thought I’d bring my materials out to the little lanes of my longtang and do a portrait of him in public…what an attention-seeker, huh? But Ai Weiwei does that too! Oh, guess what medium I used? No, not paint - that’s so BOH-RING! - I collected 100,000/7kgs of sunflower seeds, and this is what I did.

[more Hong Yi | artist found at prostheticknowledge & devidsketchbook]