About this event
Visual Artby Laura Kay Keeling
Through their solo exhibition the visitor (revisited), artist Laura Kay Keeling presents collages of lush ecosystems that honor a time of connection and grief shared with a praying mantis in her backyard. Digital and analog images taken during this time are then reflected and repeated onto themselves, much as an insect’s compound eye might see it. In this way, Keeling processes the id of the viewer through a small, cradled look at the world; one full of meaning and story. Collaboration with the mantis’ little view to the outside world allows for endless growth of temporal emotional memory. These works document green, verdant maps to neurodivergent joy — and the mutual care that can be found in the power of witnessing.
Laura Kay Keeling (she/her/they) is a self-taught visual artist based in Hamilton, ON. Her practice is rooted in a process-centered approach that integrates analog photography, video, digital collage, installation, and public artwork. As a process-based artist with archival investigations, her artwork questions how we form connections with the natural world and how we capture and cherish memories and moments in time. She explores the reciprocity of care amongst natural narratives and how one might engage and interact with humans, plants, animals, and nature in the context of care-based relations.