Kelvin Lopez

8 Loup Trompeta de Angel

My work is a result of my quest to find a sense of belonging. I am exploring my culture through the relationship I have experienced with flora and fauna. Planting seeds, touching the earth with my hands –a hope for something to land, for something to grow, seeking for roots. Intuitively: my practice, hard work, meditation, and rituals are a homage to my lineage. The research leading up to this project began as a creative engagement with embroidery practices carried by my family members in Oaxaca, Mexico. I then decided to explore the tensions and limits of the materials evoked by those traditions, through processes of creative mediation alluding to destruction/creation of matter, color, and form. Ultimately, I arrived at the final configuration of the project, materialized in a polyptych that brings together the main findings of the previous stages, without attempting to resolve them.  I seek to follow a spiritual journey towards self-recognition. My connection to spirituality and how it is heavily influenced by my culture, involvements with psilocybin, and nature shape the forms of my creations. The importance of the material and its essence and cognitive function allows for an ambiguous representation of the themes within my work: the multiple entanglements between spirituality, process, materiality and culture. The material aids in carrying meaning through the innate process of how I approach the transitions of meaning and mediums within each piece.