As part of The Unilever series, Ai Weiwei currently has his Sunflower Seeds installation exhibiting in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. I went down to see the millions of tiny hand crafted porcelain seeds for myself, intrigued by the buzz over such an interesting idea and unaware of how long they had actually taken to make.

What I expected to be a sensory feast, was in fact rather a disappointment. The floor was vast and buried under tiny seeds, but you weren’t allowed to walk over them as the original intention had been. Apparently the opening few days of the exhibition created so much porcelain dust that they had to stop people from walking across them.

You could handle and examine the seeds under supervision, but that was as close as you could get. I’m not sure what they will do about the whole installation as it seems pretty pointless without the intended interaction.