This hand-built creation was inspired by Michelangelo's marble statue of David.

While in ceramics class, my instructor decided to have the class make from clay individual parts of the human body and they would be 'assembled' in the school's gallery for the end of semester show. To make things fair, scraps of paper with either "arm", "leg", "torso", or "head" were placed in a paper bag for each student to randomly pull out of a bag.  I had just completed a ceramic female torso (two, in fact), so I thought this would not be much of a challenge for me. I made myself busy as groans and complaints filled the room from each student as they were assigned their limb. By the time I went over to the bag, there was only one piece of paper remaining, and scribbled on it was the word "head." Not sure where I was going with it, I started off creating the head of a woman (which I later combined with one of the torsos I made earlier), then I thought I might do something a little classical and unique (it seemed as though my classmates became obsessed with molding wet clay slabs around a female mannequin). My slab evolved into the world's most famous David. And though I took some teasing from my instructor: "That's the maddest David I ever saw!" I completed my assignment with the culmination of a Crackle Raku firing that just blew everyone away (photos to follow).