A plaster saint is defined as someone without human failings. How hypocritical this is: people who claim to be infallible themselves are prone to disparage others. Artists often lend credence to their own work by citing other artists as a source of inspiration or influence; epigones all. They set themselves up on a pedestal by standing on the shoulders of others and thus another plaster saint is created. The work in this publication draws upon that idea. To blatantly appropriate another artist’s work and make it my own and, what is more, to have the temerity to choose the iconic work of Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo said that “the noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding”. By opening a dialogue between subject and observer, they have been given a voice of their own.