Wei Wei’s Marble Construction Helmet

October 19, 2012 by Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

Wei Wei, China’s greatest contemporary artist, is exhibiting down at the Hirsshorn Museum in Washington, D.C. I saw the exhibit other day and made videos of a couple of his works. The one here is a marble life-size sculpture of a construction helmet. After I loaded the video onto my computer, I watched it and took a picture of one of the frames. I edited this picture some, and this is what I came up with.

About Tim Ruane

Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.