I first showed interest in art in fifth grade, I joined art club at my elementary school. I did painting in middle school and then I was in high school I took three years of ceramics and drama for two years. My favorite way to make art is painting but I enjoy making art other ways. My ceramics classes taught me to trust the process because things would get hard but I always made it through. After high school I plan on going to  Scottsdale Community College for theatre and ceramics. My art classes have motivated me to want to contunue with them after high school. 

I already had an idea in mind for what I wanted to do for this project, so that made planning easy. After planning I made a mold out of newspaper so that the inside would be hollow and hold the clay up. Once the mold was done, I rolled slabs and then started attaching them onto the paper to make the body. The base of my project cracked becuase it dried too fast, so then I had to cut the bottom off and attach a new one. After the body was done, I made the hands to put around it. I made the hands by rolling clay out and tracing my hand as an outline. Then I attached some designs on the hands to make them different. My project had to dry out and get fired, then I started to glaze it. I applied three layers of glaze on the project and then fired it a second time. 

My project is about sexual abuse and violence. I chose this topic because I think that it is something that nobody should ever have to go through and because the victims are often forgot about. When people look at my artwork I want them to see the huge impact that these attacks can have on the victims. By looking at the large amount of hands all over the body I wanted it to show how these attacks can push somebody down and stay with them forever. Sexual violence is something no one should have to go through.   

If I were to do the project again, I  would put more details on the face. I would add eyes, a nose, ears, and a mouth. I wasn't able to do it on this project because I thought I wasn't good enough to do it. In the future, I will trust the process and myself more.