“During the pandemic, Capezzuti turned to powerful and haunting figures fashioned from recycled laundry lint. Her large-scale characters loom over us like animated relatives of comic or cartoon figures from popular culture and/or angst-ridden, emaciated figures by Giacometti. Carnivalesque in nature, they simultaneously contain all-too-human contradictory attributes.”

—Vicky Clark, Art Critic

Each of Capezzuti’s sculptures is created from an individual collection of dryer lint, perhaps a household’s collection for a year, the lint from towels at her gym or simply the lint tossed on her front porch by neighbors walking their dogs. Each sculpture is connected to the donors through a tiny QR code embedded in the debris of the sculpture, looking like a fruit sticker but leading to letters from donors about who they are and what they washed. In installation, the work speaks to viewers both in the moment and through these digitally accessed stories.

Copyright: Cheryl Capezzuti, 2024

Photos: Larry Rippel and Callingbird Photography