Last year, a group of my friends and I placed over 600 mini glow in the dark resin ducks around our teachers room. It was a prank we played that lasted over three months and since then we've been known around the school by teachers as the duck kids. This year I wanted to revisit that in a fun little painting or bright and intense colors. So, on this massive canvas I painted the same ducks my teacher is still finding around his room and titled the painting "Cluster Duck". When I created the painting I wanted to have something to remember that time in my life and make everyone around giggle a little bit with how ridiculous the painting itself is. No matter if you know the origin behind it I wanted people to get a sense of joy from the painting. This painting was created using the prompt "memories" in my art class, and obviously this prank was the first thing to come to mind, yet if I were to paint the people placing ducks around a classroom, showing people the actually memory of what happened, I felt like nobody would get the sense of joy I felt doing something so ridiculously obnoxious for a teacher I had for three years in a row at that point. I felt like with how long we dragged it out, having ducks be our theme in our annual relay for life, a charity event raising money for cancer, after the prank, I felt like it deserved more joy. So to create this piece I used leftover ducks and placed them in a pile and used that as reference of my painting. I won't lie it was extremely tedious to draw and paint all of those ducks but I dot think I would have it any other way. When I finished the painting I just smiled, I didn't sigh of relief that its over, I genuinely had fun creating this painting. As a result everyone that I talked to afterwards began debating as to who would be the person to buy the painting. I saw how much art can change a persons day, how people smiled while I walked the halls with this piece, and how many people wanted to have this in their house. I created over thirty prints of this painting and began selling them so everyone that wanted this painting has the opportunity to have a version of it in their house. I have already been sent photos of people hanging it on their walls and the colorful frames they ordered for it. Overall this painting just makes me happy in every aspect, artistically and socially, and it made me view art in a whole new way because now I know how happy one singular piece can make a whole community happy.