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In response to the Chinese government’s confiscation of his passport, Ai Weiwei also began the everyday practice of placing a bouquet in a bicycle basket outside his Beijing studio, using vivid floral profusions to counter stale, bureaucratic power. This delicate, remarkably precise sculpture, created in the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen, commemorates the artist’s daily act of resistance.