Laura Kay Keeling: Untitled Portals, Variations

Untitled Portal 10 & Untitled Portal 11, 2025

Laura Kay Keeling
Untitled Portals, Variations

June 7 – July 26, 2025
As part of CAFKA.25: Field Guide to the Understory
Cambridge Centre for the Arts & Online

Untitled Portals, Variations presents a series of collages, an installation piece, and a virtual space by Laura Kay Keeling as part of CAFKA.25 Field Guide to the Understory. Through a process-centered approach, the artist experimented with and merged analog and digital processes to expand on an earlier series, Untitled Portals.

These pieces include natural elements that have been photographed both digitally and on 35mm film, scanned with a flatbed and 3D scanner, digitally manipulated, and then brought into physical form. Continuing a dialogue between the natural and digital world, the work explores connections to where we find ourselves, the incredible and important ecosystems that surround us, and the joys that can come from everyday moments of being in and engaging with our surroundings through reciprocal care and respect.

How can we maintain and evolve connections to the natural world in an increasingly isolating and technology-dependent society?

Can virtual spaces be used to encourage folks to take pause and explore, and can moments of joy and excitement be replicated in these virtual environments?

Learn more about Untitled Portals, Variations, explore the virtual space on your device, and view a recorded tour with audio descriptions.

A crop of Untitled Portal 12, 2025

About the Artist

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.

Alongside her studio practice, Laura is an active arts administrator.

For more information about the artist:
www.laurakaykeeling.com
Instagram @laurakaykeeling
Sign up for her mailing list.

Untitled Portals, Variations is presented by and with support from CAFKA, Tangled Art + Disability, sky fine foods, and the Cambridge Centre for the Arts.

About CAFKA

CAFKA – Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area takes art outside of the gallery and presents it in public places to foster community connections, record our stories, and enjoy the common spaces we all share. Artworks featured in CAFKA.25: Field Guide to the Understory can be found across Waterloo Region from June 7 – July 26, 2025.

Website | Instagram @cafkabiennial

About Tangled Art + Disability

Tangled’s mandate is to support Disabled, D/deaf, chronically ill, neurodiverse, k/crip, mad, sick & spoonie artists; to cultivate Disability Arts and Disability culture in Canada, and to increase opportunities for everyone to participate in the arts. We do this by:

• Developing, showcasing, promoting, and employing Disabled artists;
• Fostering partnerships and collaborations that increase opportunities for Disabled artists
• Empowering Deaf, Mad, and Disability-identified people to embrace and explore their own creativity;
• Publicly showcasing the rich diversity of talent from the Disability Arts community.

Website | Instagram @tangled_arts

About Sky Fine Foods

Sky Fine Foods is a rejuvenating experience, concerned with ecologies, inclusion, simulation, screens, and realities. An experimental project space representing international contemporary and other artists; with new ideas, new processes, and new methods.

Located at www.skyfinefoods.com, Instagram @skyfinefoods, in Art Gate VR, and occasionally elsewhere.

About Cambridge Centre for the Arts

The CCA is a municipally operated community arts centre that enriches and engages area residents, artists and organizations through the provision of quality artistic experiences and opportunities that stimulate, promote and support the arts in Cambridge. The CCA encourages participation and inspires an appreciation for the arts.

Cambridge Centre for the Arts
60 Dickson Street
Cambridge, ON N1R 8N1

Website | Email questions@cambridge.ca

Special thank you to the City of Cambridge, Ontario Arts Council and Government of Ontario for supporting Untitled Portals, Variations.

Image Descriptions:
1. Two side by side collages. On the left in the center are pink flowers with green leaves with monarch butterflies set to the right and left. A grid creates a frame around the outside of the image. On the right is green grass with yellow flowers and shiny mushrooms. A grid runs along the bottom and left-hand side.
2. Digital collage with concrete shapes and bricks with small stones stacked on top of each other. Elements from Untitled Portal 12.
3. A collection of sponsor logos. Top row: Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Government, and City of Cambridge logos. Bottom row: Cambridge Centre for the Arts, CAFKA, Tangled Art + Disability, and sky fine foods logos.