QCP #014 | Ivan C Lopez - Painter, Ceramicist, and Muralist | Healing Through Creativity, Plant Medicine, And Listening To The Universe

GUEST BIO Ivan C Lopez is an artist from San Francisco by way of Columbia. He co-founded and helped build Artillery Art Gallery - a creative community space in the heart of the Mission. His passion to provide space for community inspires others to find what has been explorative and healing for him. Through ceramics and painting, Ivan hopes to bring balance; within a connection to the natural world alongside the concrete walls of the city. I wanted to speak with Ivan because he connects this idea of the modern human being returning to our wild selves by communing with our indigenous selves. Not only through embracing creativity, but through encouraging and teaching others to pick up a brush to play with colors. Or taking a lump of clay and sitting at a table to be creative together. In this way, we embrace our childlike curiosity to explore and meditate upon the infinite ways of knowing ourselves, just in the same way we were created from virtually nothing. In this conversation, Ivan shares his creative process, his journey in his lifetime exploration of art, self-discovery, and community. Please enjoy this stream of consciousness conversation beneath a canopy of redwood trees in McClaren Park San Francisco, on Ohlone Rammaytus land - with the artist, the wild human, the mindfully grounded, Ivan Camilo Lopez. Ivan's Instagram: @ivanclopez Artillery Art Gallery Ivan's Art here. SHOW NOTES Summer Search Ceramic Art The Amazons Ayahuasca Plant Medicine Elderberry Kava Root Bike packing Ivan's Wild Human's Collection Additional Links and Resources https://vimeo.com/113688021?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=12703998