We never did find him, but I wasn’t even looking. My whole attention was on the trees and the grass and the different materials being used on the building sites. My idea for the art exhibition was beginning to come into focus. I definitely wanted to create a piece of installation art and I was starting to wonder whether I might be able to use some of the leftover wood or metal from here. At Tate Modern there are some brilliant installations. I’ve been there three times now – once with my parents when I was nine, once on a school trip, and once last summer with Mum and Dad and my brother, Ben, who’s four years older than me and lives and breathes chess. I was the one who’d begged to go to Tate Modern and Ben had rolled his eyes and said he’d only come if we could do something that wasn’t so boring afterwards. Mum and Dad had quickly agreed, because neither of them likes modern art either. “Look at that,” I remember Mum saying to Dad, in a bit of a disgusted voice, in front of one of the exhibits.
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