Catharina Trabasso

Creation, exploration, feeling, and expression. Works that can define my process while working with the language of art. Through specific elements in each artwork, I'm expressing my feelings by developing through each, considering the steps that it took me to the final result. Being a Brazilian student learning about different cultures, styles, and especially a variety of techniques, I am exposed and influenced by them to create my own and evolve. During my first year in the IB Program, I confess that I have felt lost and confused, taken the pressure that it's set to. I tried at most to explore a more diverse artistic environment, rather than being in my comfort zone and just observing what I was used to.

I experienced the challenge to visualize the school's campus from a different point of view, gathering images that would still portray and signify our school, however, its perspective would change. The first two pieces of my exhibition depict this project, envisioning objects that would myself to visualize the campus. Both photographs are visual representations of human and natural effects that cause what's around, especially the movements and creations around them.

Exploring digital artworks, I portrayed simple but well-developed pieces that demonstrated my study within colors, shadows, and perspective. Since past creations, I have always used black and white in my painting and literally everything that I created. However, during the course program, I studied the relationship between colors, considering their shadows, highlights, and the construction that they cause to a perspective. Thus, my exploration was to insert colors into my pieces, such a way that I would express and bring meaning to the work. Through one of my digital drawings, considering that it was made based on architectural study and development, I explored a three-dimensional model, representing, through scales, how the structure would look like. By using papel paraná, barbecue sticks, and thin wire, the model turned to be simple yet depicting the structural size of each manufacture.

Before the occurrence of the pandemic, due to covid-19, together with the class, I was given the opportunity to learn about ceramic bowls, their process of creation, and developments of the arts that are created within them. The artwork that I did is connected to just expressing your feelings, based on the colors used and way of painting. The colors used were orange, purple, pink, green, and blue, however, they were dark and strong, appearing that they had a blackish and grayish background. The bowl was later glazed through heat, creating a bright and glowing effect. Moreover, the other piece that I created was a dress made on a canvas, using mache paper to create each layer. My inspiration was the lotus flower, especially its colors and the petals that the flower has. The development to this creation my carefully completing each piece of the mache paper to create the final piece, by grouping them together and creating a gradient effect, considering that the dress has its own shadows.

To finalize my progress in the program, I wanted to explore and create paintings that involved watercolor, either as the main material or mixing with others. My first artwork was a recreation that I had done before, however, instead of using watercolor pencil, and owned a palette that I used to dissolve each color and apply. I went through a process of steps and learning about the techniques of watercolor, considering that demand patients. The three paintings created using watercolor, each took about five hours to dry completely to the final result.

This exhibition was created based on the progress that I created and developed during my two years in the IB program. The construction of each artwork consists of a diverse range of materials and techniques, considering that they were made on a different canvas.