As child Patricia Raible says she was not as quick as her brother, 'always with her head in the clouds' would have been the colloquial description. She speculates that she might have been daydreaming, but more likely I was trying to figure out the connections: between people and what they said and did, events and what they might mean. What connects all of these components is Patricia's chosen media and her use of surface design and texture as methods to communicate her thoughts. These techniques allow her to easily modulate between new and old, smooth and rough, subtle and...more
