We behold at least a dozen distinct plants and animals as a flattened tapestry whose weave isn’t simply metaphorical: the warp of vertical plants and rising bubbles is complemented by a weft of horizontal “currents” visualized for the painting. Although it’s quite likely most viewers would know such sea life only through the glass of an aquarium, Patterson effaces all traces of artifice in the service of an even deeper one: a blue-shifted, underwater world.
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