Pat was born in 1952 in West Orange, New Jersey. She grew up next door to a cemetery and has distinct memories of watching funerals from her bedroom window. She attended Catholic school through her first two years of college and retains a great fondness for the incense and imagery of the Catholic Church.
At her grammar school, Our Lady of Lourdes, Pat watched the films "Bernadette of Lourdes" and "The Life of Christ" probably hundreds of times as one or the other was shown whenever inclement weather prevented lunchtime recess outside. These films had an enormous impact, as Pat assumed that both films were documentaries.
Pat perfected the art of leaving her body at an early age, a skill she employed regularly in adolescence in lieu of access to more conventional means of altering consciousness. Pat's interest Judaism led her to convert to that faith in 1979. After marrying, she and her husband John traveled to Israel where they lived on Kibbutz Ein Gedi for six months.
Pat became adept at traveling into the space where all images reside, what C.G. Jung calls the collective unconscious. Eventually art making became her preferred path back and forth between the spiritual and material worlds.
Pat lives with her husband John in Oak Park, IL and sometimes in Ojai, California. They have a daughter, Adina, with whom Pat has recently collaborated on a film, "Art as Inquiry: The Emotional Cost of Intellectual Work" which premiered at the Tufts University EPIIC Symposium, February, 2005
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