[The sculpture actually pouts.]

No, it's not. Most of them say they don't like the expression I make. That I'm not pretty.

[Li-Na lets out an irritated huff]

That's because they aren't dancers. Anyone who has danced sees your expression and remembers making the same expression at some point. That is one reason I like your sculpture so much. You show how hard it is to be a dancer. It's not all pretty tutus and elegant pirouettes. It's hard and it hurts. And yet you are the most famous sculpture of a ballet dancer. That's why they place you in the center of the room. So you are the focus.

[The dancer purses her lips in though]

I suppose that's true. I've probably been seen by more people in the art gallery than my subject was at the opera when she was alive.