Untitled Portals, Variations - Virtual Space, as part of CAFKA.25
Untitled Portals, Variations as part of
CAFKA.25: Field Guide to the Understory
June 7 - July 26, 2025
Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge ON
& 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 incorporate natural elements that have been photographed both digitally and on 35mm film, scanned using a flatbed scanner and a 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?
Explore the virtual environment below on your computer, or visit via STYLY on mobile.
Experience a guided tour below with captions and audio descriptions. (or via YouTube here).
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.
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.
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 https://www.skyfinefoods.com, @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 St
Cambridge, ON
N1R 8N1
Website
Special thank you to the City of Cambridge, Ontario Arts Council, and Government of Ontario for supporting Untitled Portals, Variations.