Politically vocal Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (previously) makes another obvious statement in this tripartite photograph "Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn" which depicts the artist dropping a 2,000 years old urn.
While the triptych gained notoriety as an iconoclastic gesture, it encapsulates several broader constants in Ai’s work: the socio-political commentary on the random nature of vectors of power; questions of authenticity and value (vis-à-vis the artist’s comment that the value of “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” has today exceeded that of the once-prized urn itself), and the cycle of creative destruction necessary for any culture’s survival and evolution.
This is what happens when you exile the dude's famous poet father to a labor camp during the Cultural Revolution. The sons gonna drop all your famous shit.