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Artist, pat budge

“Waiting for inspiration can become procrastination, so I don’t let it stop me from working.

My creative process consists of combining ideas, intuition, trial and error, and chance, so that structure and movement emerge as I experiment on my design wall. What results is an ongoing process of anticipation, satisfaction and surprise. Surprise is always exciting and is what draws me to my workroom each day.”

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Artist Pat Budge makes textile compositions by piecing geometric shapes of solid colors. In these rigid structures her voice comes through in her systematization of color choice and grouping of repeated forms. Complex grids and quiet fields are juxtaposed within compositions, breaking up patterns. At first it all seems disconnected, but at second glance it begins to make sense, offering the viewer methodical connections between, on the one hand, gridded repeats, reminiscent of the interlacing strands of weavings and, on the other hand, striped resting spaces, evoking blankets. invention...“All I can do is react. I feel that way about my art. I can set it up, and then I can react to it.” She honestly believes that many of the important developments in her own life have been the result of things beyond her control. They happened by chance. In the end Budge says about her work: “I get what I get. Some are ok, some are pretty good, and some are exceptional. The strange thing is the more I rely on chance, the more intentional my work becomes.”  excerpt ESSAY, petra fallaux 

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