Pedro Ospina

Founder of The Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden

Nomination:

Nominated by Silvia Roldan "I have the pleasure to meet Pedro Ospina, he is a wonderful person a human been. Aside from that, he is a community activist and artist. He is part of The project "The Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden" which takes place on the 2200 block of Philip Street. Pedro and volunteers are building this community kitchen which one has proposed to educate, promote art, and community involvement. This space is building with recycled products and that makes this project sustainable and friendly with nature, also a big example of community work. "

Quotes form Pedro:

"My art has always been based on popular culture, indigineous culture, and my work always has been influenced by creating what you have, creating and making things out of anything. Also getting together with people as much as possible. Bringing people together, sharing stuff, so those are really big influences that I developed in what I'm doing now. After finishing his project on a house: “So, now that I got a place to live I said: "what's the next thing I need?" The next thing I need is food, so then I said: - Alright I'm gonna to do a project based on food and it's gonna be a public project.” 

“I think that is one of the things that I always want to bring back here is that kind of like they say in spanish: "ambiente" it's a feeling and it's made by people.” 

“Genius is a big word, right? It's like uau! I think I'm different, I don't know if I'm a genius, but Ithink I'm just trying to follow what makes me fulfilled and I love sharing, that's it.”