In …BENT… AND RIPPLED…, Patterson constructs a lush but fractured tableau: insects flutter across torn paper and printed floral motifs, forming a tapestry that is both seductive and unsettling. Beauty here is not an escape; it is a witness. The roaches and butterflies are not just decoration; they are memorials. They mark lives overlooked, erased, or discarded. The work is in a beautiful conversation with Hirst butterfly pieces where both of them reflect the fleeting time and the cycle of life.

This piece is part of her ongoing “garden” series: imagined spaces where beauty meets violence, and ornament becomes a language of grief and resistance. With theatrical scale and poetic force, Patterson offers a meditation on survival and the quiet, complicated power of being seen.