After a stimulating conversation with Q about her preference to adopt a dinosaur as her pet-slash-bodyguard, I have been conducting rummages in every pet store to determine the probability of that particular command. Q, my painter friend’s five-year-old cutie, was very explicit about her dinosaur. The specification is as followed:

1. The Dinosaur Pet needs to be as big as Sue the T-Rex in the Field Museum
2. The Dinosaur Pet cannot be a giant LEGO replica
3. The Dinosaur Pet has to be teachable for “sit” command

So, when I was in Boeing Gallery South of Millennium Park in Chicago staring at Sui Jianguo’s Windy City Dinosaur sculpture few weeks later, all I could think about was how to teach this gigantic dino to “sit”. How quaint.

Windy City Dinosaur, created by the leading contemporary Chinese artist Sui Jianguo, is installed in Boeing Gallery South near The Crown Fountain. It is currently a part of the ongoing exhibition entitled "A Conversation With Chicago: Contemporary Sculpture From China" in the Boeing Galleries of Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Four large-scale contemporary sculptures by Chinese artists are included in this outdoor exhibition from April 9 to October 2010.