Stay Awhile

In Stay Awhile, Laura takes the human body as her point of departure and works figuratively through the suspension of its familiar parameters. Taking pornagraphic images as her inspiration, Wood aestheticizes the subject matter by literally altering the conditions of its perception. The images are elegant, soft and beautiful and create an aesthetic distance from the factual reality of the bodies and acts they represent. In Stay Awhile, the content is second to its distillation; the paintings convey the impressionistic nature of perception.