this week i went to the summer exhibition at the royal academy which, as usual, was full of stuff i didn't understand. maybe it's just because i'm a rabbit, although i'm not sure humans really understand it either. what i'd like to know is why are there never any paintings of carrots, these days. i bet the old masters did a few.
anyway, this year - for a change - there was something of interest for a member of the family leporidae: a trio of sculptures of my cousins the hares by barry flanagan.
obviously, i had to have my photo taken admiring them...
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Ooh - that looks very useful - a hare showing you how to do Kung Fu, Buttons.
At least some of your distant relations were there.
I don't suppose there were any hippo portraits in the exhibition this year. We always seem to be overlooked at these events - can't think why. On the whole we are an attractive species and worth a bit of oil paint or pastel or watercolour, or even a few coathangers.
Maybe next year we could work together to submit a Buttons collage representing both branches of our illustrious family ...
very useful, sharon as the foxes at the bottom of brian and david's garden will shortly discover!
great idea, buttons hippo - i suggest a pyramid of hippos with me balanced on top: large scale, mixed media. we'll make a fortune!
Or we could enter a pyramid to be the new installation to feature on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square!! Hippolyta says she's up for it (no surprise there then)
I'm definitely up for it: I've been waiting for my plinth to come for years.
ACLAM: a large shellfish. But I prefer oysters, darlings.
Wit and beauty, Hippolyta - I think Buttons Rabbit should get a move on with his courting.
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hippolyta – regarding your quest for a 'plinth': i, alas, am a pauper...
sharon – zip it! please!
But I could be your plinthess!
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trouble is, at the moment we're all plinthless! hehehehe...
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