The piece I chose to create was Swans Reflecting Elephants by Slavador Dali, created in 1937 this oil painting was in the artist’s Spanish surrealist style of painting. Born in Spain Dali was an art student in Madrid, two events in the 1920’s brought about the development of his mature artistic style. Sigmund Freud’s writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery, as well as his affiliation with the Paris Surrealists. Salvador Dali as an artist captures me through his creative process and construction techniques, to create these images from the subconscious mind he would induce hallucinatory states in himself. His paintings depict an illusion of a dream world, commonplace objects deformed or otherwise metamorphosed in bizarre and unnatural fashions. I picked this piece mainly because I wanted to make a swan because it seemed fun and easy enough, but also because this painting is very simplistic compared to other Dali pieces, and I’m drawn to that. All in all I’m really happy with the base of my piece, I completely guessed at how to construct my swan and I think I accomplished a convincing swan well. I don’t love my glaze job but I don't hate it. It was heavily rushed because of the middle school class day, but if I could do anything over again it would only be the carving. I was too busy talking while hallowing it out, and I gave it a buttcrack.