Chloe has dabbled in various artistic media for a while now, including watercolor paints, crayons, and coloured pens. Her attention span is usually quite short, not unusually for a 2-year-old, but she seems to enjoy doing it and also watching Shelley produce pictures of various characters from the books she has been reading. There is one area, though, where she has been unexpectedly creative, and that is in creating sculptures, or 'installations', out of whatever things are around at the time. The first time we noticed this was last month in Oxford. She had stacked up some laundry baskets, and when we asked her what it was she said, "It's a woman."
Last week in the apartment she had finished breakfast and then stacked up her breakfast things into a tower and informed us that it was a "baby."
And her latest, more minimalist, installation involved hanging a banana from a hole in the wall of the kitchen -- "telephone."
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