The artwork
Marine Parade
This one came from drawing alongside kids. Give a child an octopus to draw and they will not labour over the suckers or worry whether the arms bend correctly. They will get straight to what an octopus actually is: a round thing, some arms, a face that is clearly pleased about something. Done in thirty seconds, and somehow more like an octopus than a careful drawing would be. I found that genuinely humbling. Adults add detail because we are anxious about being wrong. Children subtract it because they are only…
