Twenty years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Kotatsu Iwata, a Japanese artist with an extraordinary talent for capturing the essence of visual culture through his art. At the time, I was excited to learn everything I could about his work, and be exposed to his phenomenal visual language. Among his works, two large-scale Starbucks-inspired paintings stood out, their striking imagery still imprinted in my memory. Two decades later, my enthusiasm for Iwata’s work hasn’t waned.

A few years ago, a serendipitous message led me to Laura’s art. I’ve been a champion of it ever since, and not surprisingly, as her work is emotionally rich. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on memories and their limitations and the subjective truths that emerge from them.