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Kapoor often creates very large sculptures. In the courtyard of the Royal Academy, Kapoor has made a sculpture 15 metres high, made of very shiny silver balls. Young people were asked to draw the reflections that they saw in these balls - from memory.
Aakash, age 5
One of Kapoor’s sculptures is very smooth and white, and blends into the walls of the gallery. It is only when you notice the smooth bump sticking out of the wall that you realise it is a sculpture. Children imagined what might be on the inside of this bump.
R. Sharkey, age 9 
Martina, age 9
Several of Kapoor's sculptures are made of stainless steel that has been polished to give a smooth and reflective surface. Unlike normal mirrors, the sculptures change the shape and size of your reflection, and may even flip it upside down! Our young visitors drew their reflection as it appeared on both sides of one sculpture.
Isabella Etteny, age 7
Perhaps the most startling piece in the gallery is a real cannon that actually fires large pellets of red wax across the room, at 80 kilometres per hour! Kapoor is interested in how we physically respond to sculpture, and young visitors captured the facial expressions of people when the cannon fired.
R. Sharkey, age 9 
Saachi, age 8
Also made of thick red wax, Kapoor designed a very large and very slow train to travel through the gallery. Our young visitors, like many poets before them who have written about trains, created their own poem about this sculpture.
Meriel Green, age 10 
Isabella Etteny, age 7 
Perda, age 11
Many of Kapoor’s sculptures are very large and look like they would have been very difficult to make. Young visitors thought about what they would make, if they could build a sculpture for the gallery made out of absolutely anything.
Stella Greer, age 7
Several of the sculptures remind us of shapes seen in the natural world, and one piece is even called ‘Slug’. Young visitors designed sculptures based on their favourite animals.
Aakash, age 5 
Meriel Green, age 10 
R. Sharkey 
Eric, age 6 
Perda, age 11
