I love Michelangelo's David. His somewhat arrogant contrapposto stance is offset by the worry and fear in his brow. He's literally placed on a pedistal before he's done anything good and great. He himself is made as a giant before he's even faced his own.

To me, he's a representation of youth, because isn't that what youth is? A juxtaposition of child and adult? Always trying to come off as confidant and capable, but still not quite sure how to do anything. Weighed down by pressures to be great and better without even knowing what obstacles are out there.

Michelangelo himself was just barely out of his own youth when he started the David. I wanted to illustrate a young man carving a symbol of youth, both emerging from the rough to form their own greatness.

Of course, that's just my interpretation.

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