Mary works in art, so she points at the works we encounter and gives additional information. We’re at London’s Frieze sculpture exhibition and she’s kind enough to give her explanations as if she’s telling the kids, while knowing full well that I’m listening in equal ignorance.
Unfortunately, she wasn’t available earlier today, when my son asked what a sculpture actually was. I didn’t want to get into the difference between objects in two versus three dimensions, so I settled on saying that a sculpture is like a model, not a drawing, and it can be of a person, an animal, or a thing, but it might also just be a shape, or a feeling. I was pleased with this, but the boy seemed unsatisfied, so I loaded up the Frieze website to show him some sculptures on my phone. When he started picking out the ones he wanted me to buy, he was confused, but greatly impressed, when I explained they are probably too expensive for us.
