Answer: Burden responded by saying that "HE WAS MAKING A PIECE OF SCULPTURE".
Explanation: Christopher Lee Burden, who is know as Chris Burden was an American artist who live from April 11, 1946 to May 10, 2015 works in sculpture, installation, and performance art.
He was known with his performance called Deadman, which was acted at Mizuno gallery, Los Angeles, in November 12, 1972. He arranged with his friend to shot him on his arm with a small caliber riffle. During his performance outside the gallery, where he laid down on the street, the police asked him what he was doing, he responded that he was making sculpture. Which was exactly what he knew he was doing.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Unfortunately, we do not know the activity you showed yourself performing. You are the one who knows it. You did not share that information.
What we can do is to help with the following comments.
You can choose to be an artist in ancient Egyptian times.
This choice reflects the Egyptian style in that you like to draw symbols and write messages on Egyptian walls, columns, and obelisks, which were important components of ancient Egyptian buildings and temples.
Your drawing reflects the Egyptian canon in that you are very careful about respecting the proportions of what you are drawing. Egyptian artists were very disciplined and strict in following the Egyptian canon to keep proportion real with the meaning they tried to convey.
You could describe the meaning of your Egyptian-style drawing as a simple but very direct form of communicating using the correct way of the canon, so your drawings can never be misunderstood.
The limits did using the canon impose on you is the way you use the canon to respect the 18 units to draw the body or the figure, including a 19th, that was sued to draw the details of the head, as well as the correct use of the scale of proportions, colors, and gestures.
They were made out of Terracotta.
Spousal Abuse. The answer is in the question. :)
Domestic Violence would be another way of saying it.