In Soft Portals, Laura explores the quiet tension between precision and permeability. Working with hand‑dyed and stitched canvas, the artist constructs modular compositions that recall modernist architecture and spiritual abstraction, yet the works resist rigidity. White geometric overlays slip beyond their expected borders; soft gradients bleed across seams. There is a constant negotiation between the fixed and the fluid.

The series draws conceptual lineage from the Transcendental Painting Group of the 1930s and ’40s, particularly in their pursuit of a visual language for the immaterial. Yet rather than transcendence through the cosmic or sublime, the work roots this inquiry in the domestic and tactile: frayed edges, subtle imperfections, slowness of process. These thresholds aren’t gates to otherworldly visions, they are modest ruptures, barely perceptible openings. They invite a sensitivity to surface, to process, to the moment before transformation.

By emphasizing incompleteness and chance, within a practice once defined by formal control, the artist creates space for something else to emerge: attention, uncertainty, breath.