Marcela Lopez

I found a place inside, so tiny, so sacred, I don't have words for it, so I paint it. For me art is a magical method of healing. I try to search for real art, the one that is the highest expression of the spirit. As I create I feel the higher aspects of myself finding their way into the material world, the paper. The geometric shapes that I constantly draw, show the many dimensions of life available . The square represents the physical, the manifest, that which we know. The circle represent the unmanifest, the spirit and space. The triangle symbolises the threefold in nature: manifest, unmanifest and the human being which contains both. When I integrate them I can see life in all the dimensions. The aim of my art is to integrate my self to the point that there's no longer any difference between who I am inside and outside.

This art serves as a tool for personal transformation, and I have noticed it aligns and harmonizes spaces where they are displayed. By evoking ancient mexican tribal traditions and rituals, which I have personally experienced, and highly spiritual concepts such as sacred geometry, sacred patterns, the integration of the feminine and masculine, sacred naguals and shamanic figures, I try to become more aware of ...

Sculpting Ceramic. Antigua Academia de San Carlos. ENAP Mexico.2011-2012

Drawing the Human Figure. Antigua Academia de San Carlos. ENAP Mexico. 2012

Sculpting Wood Carving. Antigua Academia de San Carlos. ENAP Mexico. 2012

Urban Art/ Graffiti Workshops. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes Mexico City. 2012

Neoartesanía. EAAD School of Architecture, Art and Design, ITESM. 2013

Alebrijes and Wood Carving. Instituto de las Artesanias Oaxaquenas. Oaxaca Mx. 2013

Black Clay Workshop. Instituto de las Artesanias Oaxaquenas. Oaxaca, Mx. 2013

Ceramic Sculptures:

2011 "Inicio en Blanco" . Antigua Academia de San Carlos. Mexico City.

2012 "Forja de Barro". Antigua Academia de San Carlos. Mexico City.


Painting:

2013 "Story of the Creative". See Me. New York.


Installation:

2013 "Re-Accion, El performance como plataforma de diseño". Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño. Monterrey, México.