Artists Sharing Influences: Artist Talk within Exhibition

State: Oregon

Image alt text: Firmly anchored on the floor is Francesca Capone’s massive spiral form with a title that spirals as well, “Scallop / Newly carved out recesses become vessels, in time you collect, and you build up once more”. This sculpture’s form of the spiral expresses the moment at which a clash of opposites has been resolved, or is even transcended. Capone’s artistic ethos involves a loose interpretation of the traditional craft of weaving. Through her disciplined, technical training and well-educated approach to the practice, she challenges weaving to be not only a tedious process but a poetic act. The viewer is thus invited to co-create the narrative world of her work, to think beyond the expectations of the woven form, and further, to contemplate the representation of time and place. Her integration of unlikely, sometimes found materials which might otherwise be waste, in this case, dock lines from a nearby marina, likely along the Columbia River, builds complex meaning within her work. Spirals are one of the most widespread shapes found in the natural world, and offer a vast ocean of symbolic significance and cross-cultural primordial powers invoking concepts of inner consciousness, energy, and rebirth. The spiral itself may too represent dissolution or accumulation, both concepts at play in Capone’s material process. Here, also, the spiral is bound by a mesh-like grid of cotton, polycord, and bookbinders tape, holding the charge of the idiom, “keeping it together”, in times of great fragmentation.

Diversity: woman-owned, woman artist(s), BIPOC artist(s), LGBTQIA+ artist(s)

Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible

Kid friendly: No

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