Virginia Mahoney’s exhibition, Holding Thoughts, at Boston Sculptors LaunchPad Gallery, presents woven forms made of strips of old paintings and reclaimed food net. Before weaving, the paper strips are written on or stitched with words or passages from her old sketchbooks, an act that feels affirming and almost permanent.

This excavation of the past is a contemplative act of remembering, honoring, and preserving, while processing uncertainty, change, and ruminations on present situations, advancing age, and the inevitable. Mahoney tries to hold on to where she has been with these vessel forms that reach out into space in an effort to assert and affirm power, self, mark, and agency.

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