Here's another topographical map by GP#2:
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This one is of the lake on which my parents have a little house. The three sections represent the three sections of the lake, which are indeed laid out in just this way; the wood across the lower end represents the beaver dam that really does extend in just that place.
Here's a self portrait he did with the bottle tops:a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVsnY__CrLAXWFDGe6D6aYDXUbUvCoMwM21AaNbKZcp1PhNk-HYN2fS65OiFcw4LgPYD26KPUDXOdfypFzB0-d0WncS9MQyf1EyM1twtxk6cHGUyY520zwpPTbJq__8S3Y-xMlueZHywW/s1600-h/self+portrait1.JPG">
It's himself, dancing; inside his head, he's thinking about multicultural friendship and world peace. (See the different colored people, holding hands? They're standing on an orange beach, by the shore of a great blue ocean.)
This is himself, loving himself. ("Sometimes I really like me.")
Those bottlecaps occupied him for at least three hours.
As a point of comparison, this model dragon in a book he wanted to get held him for all of three minutes:
And this project, that I actually thought was well conceived, by the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst to explore positive and negative space:
held his interest for about thirty minutes.
When we got home, he asked if I could please let him have a collection of bottlecaps here, at home.
I said yes. Sigh.
GP#3 asked me to take a picture of her doing a tableaux of Degas' Little Dancer (she is absolutely obsessed with Laurence Anholt's book):
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I'm not sure if the term "tableaux" really covers "re-enacting a children's book about a sculpture of a dancer" but, there it is.
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