This series consists of small individual artworks carefully crafted with polished Venetian plaster on wooden panels. Lines are etched into the reflective surface and stars are rendered in gold-leaf.

2010–Present
9” x 12” drawings and paintings

Ink or acrylic on paper. Sold individually. Each work is mounted between two layers of UV-protective, non-glare plexiglass with a French cleat on the back for wall installation.

Begun in 2010, Patterns of Change is Bea Ortiz’s ongoing meditation on time and the dual forces of yin and yang—darkness and light, expansion and contraction, negative and positive space. Each fractal-like drawing suggests a cosmos of its own: black holes, weather systems, cellular division, fluid dynamics. What appears at first to be a study in microcosms reveals itself, in the totality, as a meditation on interconnection.

Though each piece stands alone, the full installation forms a grid where perceived separateness dissolves into a unified field. Patterns of Change is reconfigured each time it is shown—drawings are sold, new ones created, and the composition evolves. The series is available for exhibition in its full 128-piece iteration: 64 black ink on white paper, 64 white acrylic on black paper.