A path less taken by Patricia Buck

A path less taken, 2025

A path less taken

Patricia Buck

Acrylic on canvas

11 x 9 x 0.5 in (27.94 x 22.86 x 1.27 cm)

Inv: 2025-003

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This piece grew out of a desire to let everything interact together—color, line, and mark all unfolding without hierarchy. I followed the rhythm of the surface, allowing one gesture to lead into the next, building a kind of visual current that loops and shifts across the canvas.

The dotted marks became a way of tracking that movement—like points of energy, moments of attention, or fragments of thought scattered through the field. They don’t settle into a pattern so much as they activate the entire surface, keeping it alive and in motion.

For me, this work is less about constructing an image and more about entering a state—where intuition takes over and the painting develops its own internal logic. It holds a sense of accumulation, of time passing through repeated actions, while still feeling immediate and unresolved.

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