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As an artist, I strive to explore and capture the magic that comes from everyday life. From the way the sunshine catches my eye, how the flowers look after it rains, a well-groomed front lawn. I am obsessed with landscape and how it changes in different regions, how nature’s colour palette is so vibrant and engaging and how we are so fortunate to have such beauty around us in so many different shapes and sizes. I love allowing the viewer to create their own narrative from a captured moment in time and hope my work evokes feelings from the viewer, whatever that may entail such that they can be engaged with the piece.
With my newest collage series, I feature interesting and beautiful images found in field guides, 35mm film photographs, National Geographic Magazines and other vintage books that have been cut apart and put back together in a new way. Not only do I love photographing nature, but I also love allowing it to inspire me and guide my collages to become a new representation of things organically found in nature. I am driven to explore the connection between art and nature and environmental elements are often the main focus of my work.
Themes I am exploring with new works include but are not limited to: ideas and concepts of “home”, how we form connections with our communities and each other. I am driven to explore the connection between art and nature as well as the internet, television and effect of social media on our everyday lives. I have also been exploring, unpacking and processing feelings of grief, which coincides with the concept of “the visitor” spoken about in Rumi’s poem titled The Guest House.
Submitted by Laura Kay Keeling.