WallC aka Clara Wall on combining perfection and imperfection

wearable art collab

Clara Wall x Violenda (9)

Argentinian artist Clara Wall collabed with 9-year-old Violenda from the SDN 004 Mentarang school in Pulau Sapi. Violenda is a serious artist, who strives to perfect her art style.

Curious about our other wearable art collabs? Check them all out!

wearable art collabs

Violenda (9)

Pulau Sapi, Indonesia

Violenda is a 9-year-old pupil at SDN 004 Mentarang, living in the small town of Pulau Sapi in North Kalimantan. Violenda already has big dreams of becoming an artist. She is already producing well thought-out pieces, with impressive symmetry in their composition. Her aspiration is to become the perfect artist so that she can draw better.

Clara Wall

La Plata, Argentina

Clara Wall is an Argentinian muralist and a creativity enthusiast. She is all about creating positive experiences, whether it be through brightening up grey cityscapes or hosting in-person workshops. She has also done some incredible work for companies like Nike, Loreal, Audi, and Unilever. Not only that, but she has already participated in art projects to help children in need.

wearable-art-collab-t-shirt-wallc-clara-wall-violenda-4.jpg

Becoming the perfect artist

For her drawing, Violenda (9) was given the theme of perfection. The goal of the exercise was to see how she relates to the theme and what it would visually look like through her eyes. Violenda produced an impressively symmetrical scene of mountain peaks with a moon in the centre. When we talked to her about her piece, she told us: "I want to be perfect

because I want to draw better".

shop this tee

wearable-art-collab-sweater-t-shirt-wallc-clara-wall-violenda-3-lr.jpg

wearable-art-collab-carla-walls-violenda-drawing-11_cf0fc19c-348a-4546-851b-9dbb52814d36.jpg

Making art together with Violenda

“She said that she had drawn a moon. And I saw a sun. So I thought okay, this has to be a moon and a sun. It has to be a mix of what I saw and what she's done.” But then, the next challenge came for Clara: how should she combine the warm colours of the sun and the cool colours of the moon?

“What if I divide the piece and make one side warm and the other side cool? Then I realised that if I did that, there would be my part and her part. They would be separate, not joined. So I decided to mix the colours. I also tried to respect the symmetry and all the elements as much as possible.”

shop this tee

wearable-art-collab-t-shirt-wallc-clara-wall-violenda-10-lr.jpg

wearable-art-collab-carla-walls-violenda-drawing-9-lr.jpg

Introducing imperfection into the piece

“A very wise teacher I had once told me that there's no right or wrong when you are creating. So, it's not good or bad, right or wrong, perfect or imperfect. And you must create and see what happens with your art. That's why for this painting I used this style where the colours are moved away from the lines. They're not perfectly aligned."

shop this sweater

wearable-art-collab-sweater-wallc-clara-wall-violenda-4-lr.jpg

Clara’s collab with Violenda

“I grew up in a time where you had to study, to have a degree, and to have a career. Being an artist wasn't taken very seriously. And now I get to invite kids to see that art is a very fulfilling path. Even if you don’t end up as an artist, you have been introduced to that world, and it gives you many tools to express yourself when you grow up.”

shop this tote