Katherine- Journal Entry Creativity April 4th, 2020

I'm a really creative person, I like to express myself through art. This is why during these vacations I decided to spend some time creating pieces. There are different social problems in our communities nowaday. Some examples of this is domestic violence which a lot of families still suffer from, this is an important topic because if we as a community are not able to stop violence it's going to continue and persist for a long period of time affecting millions of people. I also spend time thinking about the most important social problem in the present, which is coronavirus. We are all going through this situation, we are seeing in social media the impact this virus is causing, the thousand of people that are dying and suffering. I as an IB student think that these problems are important and we need to be communicators and express the importance of those problems. Art is a way in which we can communicate without talking. We are able to make people conscious about the message of the piece and the feeling we want to express through it. This is why I decided to create an image related to domestic violence, I put makeup on a member of my family to make her see as a woman suffering from domestic violence, then I used an app to overlap the images and create a bigger impact in the eyes of the audience. On the other hand, to relate to coronavirus I decided to create a piece of art using as a medium watercolor, with this I inspired my work in the piece called The Nightmare. I tried to adapt the piece to the present and show how our biggest fear now, is coronavirus, and is taking control of our minds.