{"id":89,"date":"2025-07-01T02:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/photospark-about\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:28:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/es\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Acerca de"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Laurel Alanis is a contemporary wood sculptor based in San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Working exclusively by hand, he carves original sculptures from native and regional hardwoods including Rosa Morada, Parota, Cedar, Eucalyptus, and Encino. His work explores the intersection of sacred geometry, natural texture, and the quiet dialogue between human intention and material intelligence.<\/span><\/p>

Born in Mexico, Laurel spent twenty-five years living in Spain, where he immersed himself in the traditions of European painting, drawing inspiration from Renaissance, Surrealist, and Cubist artists. This prolonged exposure to the art and visual language of the Old World instilled in him a deep sense of discipline regarding composition, light, and surface.<\/p>

Upon returning to Baja California Sur, Alanis set aside the canvas entirely. Drawn to the eroded rocks, coral formations, and desert textures of his adopted landscape, he picked up wood carving tools for the first time, with no prior experience in the medium. Within months, his training as a painter translated into a sculptural practice marked by unusual sensitivity to grain, depth, and spatial rhythm. The transition was instinctive and complete.<\/span><\/p>

His ongoing series, Dialogues with Nature, comprises hand-carved wall sculptures and freestanding pieces that reference organic patterns found in Baja\u2019s desert-ocean terrain. Each work takes fifteen to thirty-five hours of meditative carving. No molds. No repetition. Every piece is singular.<\/span><\/p>

Laurel exhibits with Bazarte Los Cabos and has shown at Artphoria Design and Casa Paulina Concept House in San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo\u2019s Gallery District. His work is held in private collections across Baja California and the American Southwest.<\/span><\/p>

He works from the front patio of his home in a small neighborhood in San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo. A studio defined not by white walls, but by the sound of tools shaping wood and the smell of varnish sealing each finished piece into place.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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To Laurel, each artwork is an investigation \u2014 a moment of discovery where form and meaning surface through the process itself. Beauty emerges not from control, but from harmony.<\/p>

Each sculpture is made once. It exists not as product but as presence, carrying the marks of its own becoming. For Laurel, the work is never finished in the traditional sense. It’s just the moment when he and the wood agree to stop.<\/p>

This is craft as inquiry. Material as teacher. And every piece, an invitation to slow down and pay attention.<\/p>

Laurel’s studio sits in Baja California Sur, where the desert meets the ocean and the landscape teaches restraint. The heat, the stillness, and the way light moves across stone and water all find their way into the work. Forms become quieter here. Simpler. More essential.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Through his work, Laurel invites viewers to slow down, observe, and rediscover the subtle wisdom of the world that surrounds us.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About About the artist Laurel Alanis is a contemporary wood sculptor based in San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Working exclusively by hand, he carves original sculptures from native and regional hardwoods including Rosa Morada, Parota, Cedar, Eucalyptus, and Encino. His work explores the intersection of sacred geometry, natural texture, and the quiet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":125,"href":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanisarta.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}