Patricia Rucker: Artist Statement Patricia Rucker’s work, while experimental, is intentional in the pursuit of the borderland between dream and reality. What is tangible, what is imagined? The intricate forms replicate the exquisite detail found in nature. Iridescent and interference colors open on unexplored realms. Representational images call her eye, and stir her heart. In making art, it is the dance of Rucker’s hands with the richness of the media that awakens her cr