Laura M. Cañas P.
Visual Artist and Teaching Artist. My main media is printmaking, through it I narrate stories of gender violence, healing, identity and relationship with nature. I am a curious being that likes to experiment with other media like video, installation, photography, and making masks. I work in childcare, bringing creativity to the classrooms with a child-led approach.
El futuro es poético (The Future is Poetic)
“El futuro es poético” (The Future is Poetic) is an installation of a relief print on fabric, featuring tree branches. It is an exploration of bringing printmaking into the realm of 3D. The installation measures 20 x 30 inches.
The phrase “The Future is Poetic” comes from the project “Classifieds for Poets.” It is a statement that hopefully declares that in the future, the symbolic and spiritual will have more value for society than the material. Nov, 2025.
Despertar en casa (Waking Up at Home)
“Despertar en casa” (Waking Up at Home) is a series of five prints that illustrate the nostalgia of migration and how the identity forged in our homeland also travels within us. It invites us to listen to the Earth and enter the magical worlds of nature. The mountains stamped in the backgrounds correspond to a 360-degree drawing that the artist made in 2020 of the horizon of her hometown of Medellín, located in the middle of the central mountain range of the Andes in Colombia. Oct, 2025.
Visuals for the New Media Art and Sound Summit 2025
Laura Cañas and Tomás Díaz created these visuals for NMASS 2025, which consisted of the projection of live written texts that interpreted the sounds performed by Veronica Anne Salinas and Phonography Austin during their show. Some of the texts used came from bibliographic sources. The audience was able to add texts to the projection by joining the shared document in which the texts were written.
The visual in this presentation featured a double projection: on one side of the screen, the transcription of the texts by Laura C. and Tomás D. and the audience, and on the other side, the live ceramic work of another artist. Sept, 2025.
Mayo 17: Ritual para encontrar caminos (Ritual for Finding Paths)
Performance and installation made during the CATs+ 2025 residency organized by MOHA (Austin, TX) and presented during the resident showcase. It consisted of an installation of a black space in the middle of the gallery, created with theater curtains, with tree branches around it, like a large dark tree. The performance interacted with the installation. The artist offered messages with spiritual exercises to the audience from her previous work called “Tres Tres Tres Sinapsis”, included in this portfolio. At the end of the performance, she arranged the branches on the floor as different possible paths. The project symbolized the celebration of light that allows us to find paths when there is darkness. May, 2025.
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