For abstract view, take a few steps back

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September, 2004

Byline: CITY BEAT/SPRINGFIELD By Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

"Mire aqui!" said Capelo, an artist from Guanajuato, Mexico, as he stood on a corner outside the Emerald Arts Center this week. "Look here!"

He stayed in town all week and worked with more than a dozen students from the Springfield School District, Oak Hill School in Eugene and the University of Oregon to create a mural, which shows typical Northwestern scenes such as bicycling and dining.

Or does it? Capelo pulled a visitor back across the street to look at the mural from a distance.

"What do you see?" he said, with translation by Oak Hill teacher Armando Morales. "It has two readings. From here it's an abstraction. And the abstraction is more important because the...