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But at the same time, dew is tears.
In her garden, bliss and sorrow walk hand in hand.
Its also a mini survey of Pattersons decade-long career.

Its wonderful when an institution approaches and says, Here is the budget what do you want to do?
Her works meaning is often ambiguous, yet the experience is lush with suggestions of nature.
Then why stay also anchored in Kentucky?

One figure wears predominantly white attire in stark contrast to the others black outfit.
People tend to assume the white figure is female and the black figure is male, she says.
This ambiguity is crucial for Patterson.

She determines only an environment which she blankets with intricate beauty and otherwise lets viewers reach their own conclusions.
Patterson told me some of them are replicas of poisonous flowers.
This garden has its own life, untamed and growing wild.
There is so muchmuchness, she says.
As the men cry, they get dressed.
The installation occupies a tall nook converted into a church-like setting with dramatic video projections and actors saintly presence.
Itll definitely have other things in it, creepy things.