Sculptures, paintings and prints by artist Deborah Kapoor — all inspired by the ancient poem “Meghaduta” — will be on display at Piper Thornburgh Law Offices (182 Ericksen Ave. NE) throughout the month of October.

The poem, whose title in Sanskrit literally means “cloud messenger,” is about how a physically separated couple in India convince a passing cloud to deliver communications between them. Kapoor’s works are imagined slices of the sky we’d see along the way. With the wall as a matrix, she freely associates the arrangement of intimate shapes along the wall’s surface into cloud clusters.

Also on view are “Keepers of Nature,” a series of diptych paintings that are informed by the Hindu cosmology of the universe: air, water, heavens, fire and earth.

“Our experience of natural elements like weather offers heightened opportunity for awareness of the relationship between nature, the body and technology,” Kapoor said. “Cloud formations in particular have revealing microclimates, ripe with metaphor for conceptual and formal issues related to states of presence and absence. Clouds convert vapor into rain, while cloud storage provides repositories of information for digital networks.”

There will be a special artist’s reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, during the October First Friday Art Walk.

Kapoor is a Seattle-based visual artist whose work often combines text and textiles with strong conceptual elements about the distilled poetry within cultural markers. Her works have been exhibited widely at venues like the Trenton City Museum, the Ukranian Institute of Modern Art (Chicago), Crane Arts Center (Philadelphia), the Kimball Art Center (Salt Lake City), Seattle City Hall and many others.

Her work has been published in numerous books and she currently teaches at Bellevue College.

Learn more about Kapoor’s work at ArtXchange Gallery in Pioneer Square in Seattle and at her website, www.deborahkapoor.com.