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Making art is necessary
Ivanah Suares
She’s been painting since she can re-
member and her classmates could never
wait to see her newest drawings. Ivanah
Suares always used art to express her feel-
ings with the goal to make people feel
these too. For two years her art has been
taking a new turn. She made a caricature
for a friend, which turned out pretty great.
The request of more caricatures poured in
and Ivanah started Curatoon.
By Elisa Koek are painful, her art isn’t shocking. “It’s not my
intention to shock people. I don’t want to show
“I’d never made any caricature, but I’ve al- blood or other provoking details, I want to
ways been fascinated with faces,” Ivanah tells. show the victims in a beautiful way. These vic-
“It’s the human being itself what moves me tims deserve a spot in this world. My art pieces
to make art.” Most Curatoons Ivanah makes, are little monuments for them and if others feel
are of people she’s never met. With the help a tiny bit of what I’m feeling, I’m happy.”
of their loved ones and pictures she makes a
matching toon of them. “It’s funny when I meet While Ivanah’s ‘darker’ side symbolizes the
them in person later. I always recognize them pain and anger in the world, Curatoons shows
right away.” the exact opposite. She explains Curatoons
creates the perfect balance in her artwork.
For Ivanah Curatoons is a way to make art in “People give it away as a present and it makes
a funny, light-headed way, but there is more to people happy. That’s worth a lot to me.”
her than Curatoons. Most of the other art she
makes, is deep and contains, sometimes pain- Ivanah has a fulltime job besides her artwork.
ful, messages. “I don’t just make art, because She studied Art in Holland and still has the
I like it. I make art, because I have to. There’re dream to be able to live from being an artist
so many things in this world that I don’t under- someday. However, she doesn’t want to be a
stand, so much anger that can’t go out. They starving artist.
only way to express this and make peace with
it is through my art. For me, making art is nec- “In this time it’s not easy to become a fulltime
essary.” artist and being able to survive. Most people
don’t really appreciate art. People spend hun-
Looking at Ivanah’s paintings and drawings, dreds of guilders on technology or new shoes,
shows the pain she feels for grief in the world. but when it comes to art, they want to pay
Animals that have been killed for no reason or peanuts while this is unique. That makes a
run over by someone who’s not paying atten- job as an artist almost impossible, but I think
tion, but also babies who’ve been the victims every artist dreams of being recognized. Who
of war or starvation. Although the messages knows, it will happen to me one day.”
