IB Visual Arts LINCOLN SCHOOL Costa Rica: MARIJOSE GUERRERO Ib Visual Arts Lincoln School Costa Rica

The Artist Statement

Marijose Guerrero

The IB Visual Arts course have been for me a way to express myself, release all the stress that surrounds me and most importantly know who I am as an artist and person. I started this course two years ago. I remember that day I entered for the first time with a vision of myself accompanied with a great motivation to hopefully achieve great things in this course. As I started the course I was very shy and restrained in my ideas, painting and drawings. I started to loosen up with time, but the first art works are probably the ones I struggled the most; since I had a lot to learn before I these pieces could be the result of what I imagined in my mind. I had great ambitions but closed ideas for my independent projects, but with a push of my teacher and classmates to research and do media experimentation, I started to see my ideas come to life naturally in ways I initially have never thought of. I learned how to take a common idea and make it my own, giving it my perception and intention in it. Once I had my theme established being women’s stereotypes I did some art works with it but my ambition kept pushing in, so I made it in a bigger scale being societies stereotypes and finally that ended up converting in my final exhibition of 7 huge pieces of the seven deadly sins. My art pieces ended up being things I never envisioned but through my paintings, plates, corset and resin sculpture I managed to express my struggles through these two years of course. Today I leave this course behind me with no regrets, but what I learned in these two years is what I will keep forever in me. At the end of the day the challenges faced, the struggle, the art, the research, the hard work, the experimentation, and the help of my teacher and classmates to accomplish my goal, is what helped me determine the person I want to be