Portrait of Mr. Václav Stratil – a modeled portrait of the FaVU pedagogue in clay BUT in Brno and the artist Václav Stratil, subsequently cast from polyester and laminate. Originally just a challenge from one of my classmates, it turned into something performance and action. I gradually spent almost a year studying the body of Václav Stratil. In retrospect, it could be said that it was about a kind of documentation of his physiognomy (Václav changed his weight several times), but also a very unique work, the goal of which was a portrait a distinctive artist in the attitude of his creative process. But that was only part of it the whole work, which also had other overlaps with impacts on my other work in next years. To this day, the conversations that we had when we worked together with Václav are unforgettable for me, and they became very important to me, inspiring and, in a way, he became another mentor to me. During work, I also started to deal with the variability of the surfaces of the sculpture and its colors. To a certain extent, the artist Milan Kozelka also intervened here at some point, who filmed this event on video and helped me create visualizations of surfaces of the emerging sculpture (these materials were exhibited only as a part earlier student theses and unfortunately have not been recovered). The portrait of Václav Stratil became the content of my bachelor’s thesis and the defense took place as a unique performance, with the final question of the portrayed Václav Stratil in the role of the opponent: “Does it still make sense to do statues like this?”