She was raised in the richly vibrant intellectual circle of the Covaci family, where the troubled generation of (nowadays) iconic poets, painters and actors used to meet for talk and wine and noisy late-night parties and garden ping-pong. Their stories about time spent in Communist prisons, the recklessness of their new subversive works and the frisson of freedom – all layered themselves in Laura’s formative struc­ture. She studied mural art i ...