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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Check this post out from @matthewcort.land, there's some options that might help! Good luck ❤️ shouldntneedtobealawyer.com/posts/vaccin...

If your insurance pays for them, that is fantastic. If you are insured, I think all AHIP plans, all of the big commercial insurance plans are continuing to pay for the COVID vaccine. If you are uninsured, it is out of pocket. Goodrx.com has coupons. Costco offers a discount. These vaccines, and importantly, these vaccines are usually available from your local public health department.

If you are uninsured or underinsured, your public health department might have them for free or at very low cost. Public health departments can be a city public health department, it can be a county public health department. It really depends on where you are. So my advice there is to Google where you are and public health department and give them a call and ask what, sort of the vaccination options are.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi all! I am starting a new series on the Iranian diaspora in the U.S., photographing participants and eventually turning those photos into paintings. I'll be in California in October and if you're interested, I'd love to share more about the project! #art

Image with this text: Hi! I'm looking for Iranian diaspora members in California (especially LA and the Bay Area who might be interested in being part of a new project

I'll be photographing this
October!

DM me your email and I'll send you info if interested 🌸💖🌸

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today's the 1 month anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Venezuela. I have a #painting in this fundraiser for Yo Tengo un Sueño, which has supported Venezuelan youth in underserved communities for 10+ yrs. 100% of proceeds will be donated, offers welcome. www.artsy.net/show/rancho-... #art

"Untitled (Magenta Woman in Blue with Heart Leaf)," 30"x18.5", oil on archival print mounted to panel with frame and arch, 2024, photo sourced from Lapeer, MI

A painted over photo of a woman, head and shoulders portrait, whose face is washed with bright magenta. She is facing the viewer, with floral pattern emerging at the bottom, and the background is a series of bright blues. The painting is frame with a black frame that has painted patterning, as well as an art deco style arch at the top.

A flier with a black and white abstracted landscape with palm trees as a background.

The text reads: LAS QUINCE LETRAS
An ARTSY benefit exhibition presented by Rancho Kaya, organized by artists to raise funds for Yo Tengo un Sueño
July 22 - August 21, 2026
Cassandra Mayela Allen, Veronica Bello, Luca Bornoffi, Gabriela Brito, Frederica Brito e Cunha, Tyler Casey, Andrés Ciccone, Ivan Daniel Cova, Rubén Echeverría, Ike Ferreira, Javiera Gart, Juan Carlos Gerbasi, Harif Guzman, Charlotte Hodges, Sylvana Kiss, Domingo Luciani, Estrid Lutz, Sofia Mac Gregor, Kathryn MacNaughton, Alexander Mignot, Nicole Nadeau, Piroeh One, Daisy Patton, Francisco Rivas, Francisco Tavoni, Valeska Vera

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A cute little bear snacking on the black raspberries in our yard 😍

A smaller black bear perusing the black raspberries in our yard

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Slowly finishing off the remaining work for my solo "The Place of Flowers" at Denver Botanic Gardens this September—@sciedhenry for scale 💖 #art #painting

A lifesize painting of two grooms shaking hands and a groomsman standing behind and between them peeking over. They all have bright pinks and purples washed over them, the groom on the left with a bright orange pinstriped suit and the groom on the right wearing a pink flatly painted suit. The painting is a painted over photo in oil paint, part of the Forgetting is so long series. The men are standing outside on on a sidewalk in front of some houses. The painting is frame in a peach, with an antique Eastlake wood salvage pediment. A man wearing a green baseball cap and beard stands next to the painting wearing jeans and a white graphic t-shirt.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

According to Seek, it thinks it's bur clover! I love using this app because we've been letting our yard go wild and we can ID a lot of interesting plants that pop up that we didn't plant at all. The burs on this look gnarly tho!

Screenshot from the identification app Seek identifying bur clover. It has a photo with little yellow flowers and the following text:
Bur Clover
Medicago polymorpha
You observed it on May 24, 2026
ABOUT
Medicago polymorpha is a plant species of the genus Medicago. It is native to the Mediterranean basin but is found throughout the world. It forms a symbiotic relationship with the bacterium Sinorhizobium medicae, which is capable of nitrogen fixation. Common names include

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Our beloved Wallace is having the same trajectory but it's blueberries and cookies and hand feedings despite bad teeth that should have taken him out. He's been in palliative care for just about 2 years, which is enormous for a guinea pig! We love him so much 😍 good to see this works for others!

A brown and white guinea pig smiling inside a towel in a living room. He's watching tv with me

Wallace our guinea pig is brown and white eating critical care from a syringe with his front paws criss crossed adorably as he sits in his special bed

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I see time as a series of cycles—the past is not separate from us, and understanding that helps us dream better futures that let us learn from the lessons of before. Working on The Place of Flowers, opening Sept. at Denver Botanic Gardens 🌿 #art #painting

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ohhhhh this essay about the ways we remember Kirk (and masculinity) have been really distorted from TOS and is very good! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

There is no other way to put this: essentially everything about Popular Consciousness Kirk is bullshit. Kirk, as received through mass culture memory and reflected in its productive imaginary (and subsequent franchise output, including the reboot movies), has little or no basis in Shatner’s performance and the television show as aired. Macho, brash Kirk is a mass hallucination.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Really excited with how the show is progressing for @denverbotanic.bsky.social—opening this fall, "The Place of Flowers: Works by Daisy Patton" #art #painting

Two life-size paintings on a white wall in my studio. On the left is a painted over photo on canvas of two Iranian women seated in front of a floral curtain. There is a potted flower plant to the left, and both women are washed in bright magenta and lavender. A multicolored floral pattern emerges from their hands and encircle them. The painting is framed with floral fabric, fabric flowers and tassel at the bottom. At the top center is a pane of mirror glass, all known as aneyeh kari.

On the right is a painted over photo on canvas of two Indian men seated on a swing whose ropes are covered in flowers. The seat has a patterned blanket, and the floor is patterned as well. The men both have color washes on their hands and faces, and each have different floral patterns encircling them. The painting is framed with two different fabrics, one geometric and used to create "curtains" and the other a floral one. Brown tassel fringe lines the bottom of each curtain and the bottom of the painting, and two individual large tassels are in each upper corner.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I had no idea of this...worth the read—feels like a microcosm of so much of our current moment and its ills

In 2003, the mighty Florida orange industry produced 242 million boxes of fruit, with 90 pounds of oranges per box, most of which went on to become orange juice. Now, not even 25 years later, the United States Department of Agriculture was forecasting a pitiful 12 million boxes of oranges, the least in more than 100 years, the worst year since last. A decline of more than 95 percent.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

As someone who just moved out of a storage unit to cut costs, so much of this article resonates

None of this erases the underlying problem. It names it. The precarious archive is not an anomaly. It is a condition of contemporary artistic life. It asks artists to imagine a future audience while living in a present that offers very little security.

To name this is not to confess failure. It is to refuse the lie that artists are solely responsible for their own erasure. The archive is not just a personal burden. It is a cultural infrastructure. If we care about artists’ legacies, we have to care about the conditions under which those legacies are allowed to survive, long before the market decides they matter.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

With rent due soon, I'm highlighting folks doing rent and another for rapid-response trainings and infrastructure, both of which are at the top of my linktree. I also have Stand with Minnesota’s website, if you see another org you’d like to donate to/split your donation, please let me know 2/2 #art

A woman washed in hot pink rests her head in her hand with flowers on her hand and on top of her head, with a pink background and wearing a green kimono

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'm offering these paintings to help support folks under siege in MN—see my linktree in my bio. I will cover shipping, and each 10"x8" work is minimum of $700. Please DM and/or reach out if you are interested in one of these! I will update as works are no longer available ❤️ 1/ #art

Small portrait of a woman with a fucsia purple wash over her face wearing warm dark purple and a light lavender pink background. Over her face and body is a silver ornate pattern

A woman wearing dark rose pink with a periwinkle blue background has a yellow vine encircling her and framing her eyes

A man wearing a sweater is enveloped by a light blue cloud and has red coral vines coming from his head with a Kelly green background

A smiling girl has pink brushstrokes covering part of her face and two circular warm beige vines with red and white flowers in front of her shoulders

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I will never understand why cancer patients and immunocompromised people seem to be unworthy of protection in our society. A simple mask is just too hard to help keep someone safe. No values, no morals, no collective care.

A sign for an infusion center inside the oncology building in a hospital with a small stand that says masks optional

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

A little walk, we spent time with a lovely little waterfall

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

And now the baghlava cake!! Trying very hard not to get into it before it sets 😋

A close up of a pastry dish from Iran called baghlava cake, squares of cake with pistachios sprinkled on top

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

My fereni for Yalda—it's a rosewater rice pudding with chopped pistachios on top. Not bad for my first time and it's vegan!

A close up of ramekins on a granite countertop with fereni (rosewater rice pudding, an Iranian dessert)

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I loved this piece too 🤩 I wish I had gotten to spend more time at the show, there were so many incredible details to absorb!

A mixed media painting with a red background with text that says Abolish Patriarchy Abolish Capitalism Abolish White Supremacy Abolish ICE Abolish Settler Colonialism Abolish Monarchies Abolish Religions Abolish Caste Abolish Xenophobia and more with a painted blue female figure holding a drill with flowers coming out of it and a pencil in her other hand with many faces

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I donated this afternoon before seeing this, fantastic!

Screenshot of an email donation to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts for $100

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It's often belittled as weak, unnecessary, irritating. Those reactions are dehumanizing—we grieve because we love. And most importantly, in grief, we act. "Untitled (Who is not better than him?)"*trans from Arabic, 91"x74"x3", oil on archival print canvas w/fabric, embroidery, tassels, flowers 4/4

A last detail showing more of the black velvet framing the painting, as well as the drooping portion of the fabric that has white tassels at the end.

"Untitled (Who is not better than him?)"* translated from Arabic, 91"x74"x3", oil on archival print mounted to canvas with fabric, embroidery, tassels, fabric flowers with buttons, photo sourced from Cairo, Egypt

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

So many are under attack right now, but that doesn’t mean they should be abandoned. We are part of a greater whole, and we all deserve protection. Grief is a form of carrying, protecting, loving, preserving. Mourning allows us to express our emotions, recognizing our humanity and others. 3/

Detail of the painting showing the body of the woman on the left, as well as a closer view of the objects on the table (gun, medals), as well as the fabric flowers on the velvet that frames the painting.

"Untitled (Who is not better than him?)"* translated from Arabic, 91"x74"x3", oil on archival print mounted to canvas with fabric, embroidery, tassels, fabric flowers with buttons, photo sourced from Cairo, Egypt

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My work is about devotion and care—that each life is worthy of joy, beauty, love. Phrases like “the vulnerable will fall by the wayside” or comments about how some are a small percentage of our population are horrific to me—when we are asked to see someone as disposable, we must resist. 2/

Detail showing the woman on the right, and the floral pattern emerging from the man that moves through the painting in a heart shape. The flowers themselves are heart-shaped. The woman is washed in a purple magenta, her outfit pink mourning dress.

"Untitled (Who is not better than him?)"* translated from Arabic, 91"x74"x3", oil on archival print mounted to canvas with fabric, embroidery, tassels, fabric flowers with buttons, photo sourced from Cairo, Egypt

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

In moments like these, we are asked to treat others as expendable, ready sacrifices that will supposedly protect against additional harm. That has never, historically, been the case—they will continue to devour, over and over, until there is either no one left or they are stopped. 1/

A lifesize painting over photo on canvas of two women on either side of a large framed photograph of a man. The man is washed in hot pink, and the two women look up to him, wearing mourning clothes. The background is painted silver, and the framed photo rests on a table with a turquoise tablecloth that holds small boxes containing medals, as well as a gun.

The painting is framed with black velvet with floral patterning, and white flowers are stitched under the curve at the bottom of the painting. White tassels are attached at the bottom points on the right and left.

"Untitled (Who is not better than him?)"* translated from Arabic, 91"x74"x3", oil on archival print mounted to canvas with fabric, embroidery, tassels, fabric flowers with buttons, photo sourced from Cairo, Egypt

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I've said this before—we live in the world COVID built. Accepting "the vulnerable will fall by the wayside" let the wealthy learn they could sacrifice many easily. Even in this surge, ppl won't mask to practice care. Trump started this, but Biden solidified and was a stopgap for entrenched fascism

By now, the COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to rise to the occasion by meeting needs, not fall in line behind fascist incursions. The same forces that encouraged us to sacrifice the disabled, poor, and unhoused to a distorted idea of “natural selection” now instruct us to ignore the genocide of Palestinians. The same forces that pushed conspiratorial misinformation about public health and vaccination want us to give up on practicing collectivity. It’s connected because if we cannot be relentless in our determination to interrupt what’s unfolding before us, then we risk it becoming a disturbing norm.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The disposability of humans across everything—eugenics, AI, government, etc.—is breathtaking in its scope. Our survival depends on breaking these systems of inhumanity

There's a part of me that will never forgive the tech industry for what they've taken from me and what they've chosen to do with it. In the early days as the dawning horror set in, I cried about this almost every day. I wondered if I should quit making art. I contemplated suicide. I did nothing to these people, but every day I have to see them gleefully cheer online about the anticipated death of my chosen profession. I had no idea we artists were so hated—I still don't know why. What did my silly little cat drawings do to earn so much contempt? That part is probably one of the hardest consequences of AI to come to terms with. It didn't just try to take my job (or succeed in making my job worse) it exposed a whole lot of people who hate me and everything I am for reasons I can't fathom. They want to exploit me and see me eradicated at the same time.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It was a tough summer and now the start of a busy fall season, I'm excited to share this new headshot, as well as some upcoming shows in the coming posts—I'd be so delighted if you signed up for my newsletter, which you can find at the bottom of any page on my website ✨ www.daisypatton.com

A white femme looking person stands in front of a painting, wearing colorful puffball earrings, a dark green dress with paisley patterning, looking at the camera.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

33 cups of basil equals this much pesto 😅😋 This is a 9 cup Cuisinart so we'll be freezing the rest 🤩

A full to the brim cuisinart with pesto on a countertop

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I’m thrilled “Untitled (Three Women with Dandelion and Wild Rose Vines)” has joined the Ulrich Museum collection! I’m grateful to curator Jo Reinert and registrar Taryn Trapini. Public institutions esp academic settings are dear to me, & the source image is from Iran, so it is also a personal work

"Untitled (Three Women with Dandelion and Wild Rose Vines)," 44”x49.25”, oil on archival print mounted to panel with found mirror frame, 2024, photo from Iran sourced from New York City, NY

A painted over photograph of three women posing together. One woman, with an orange wash over her face wearing green, is seated, while two women on either shoulder lean over her. The left woman wears a dark blue dress, her arm painted lavender with a dandelion patterning over it, and more emerge from her lavender hand resting on her friend. On the right is a woman washed in pink wearing a turquoise dress with a wild rose vine emerging from her hand. The background is a flat brick red, and the painting is framed in a periwinkle and white painted old mirror frame with patterning that is similar to ornate Persian miniature paintings.

Detail of "Untitled (Three Women with Dandelion and Wild Rose Vines)," 44”x49.25”, oil on archival print mounted to panel with found mirror frame, 2024, photo from Iran sourced from New York City, NY

This view shows a close up of the lower left corner, including the frame, as well as mode of the seated woman smiling. You can see painted metallic gold and silver crosshatching her clothing and pink dots on the blue dress of the standing woman.

Side detail view of "Untitled (Three Women with Dandelion and Wild Rose Vines)," 44”x49.25”, oil on archival print mounted to panel with found mirror frame, 2024, photo from Iran sourced from New York City, NY

This shows the upper right portion, including more details of the frame, as well as a closer view of the standing woman on the right.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Collective memory is shaped by the people carrying each story and history, as well as larger forces like institutions and governments. What we think about the past is not always as it was, but rather skewed through a different lens. I think a lot about what we choose to remember, who 1/2

Lifesize oil painting of a painted over photograph of two younger women, posing next to a green tree that is shaped in a V. One woman is seated in the center, and the other stands behind her wearing a hat. Both have a color wash over their faces and hands, blending from pink to orangey red. The grass is textured paint with pinks, magentas, and yellows, and a floral pattern emerges from the seated woman.

Detail of the painting showing the pink ground and its texture, the frame which is a light creamy yellow and painted floral pattern in blues and white, and showing the seated woman's red shoes.

Detail of the two women and their clothes—seated woman wears a plaid blue dress with a chartreuse undershirt, and the standing woman wears a mauve oversized shirt. The seated woman is leaning against the tree.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I'm working on a series-within-series from the Forgetting is so long work with photographs I am taking of people who have lost loved ones due to COVID. I am always seeking more volunteers to collaborate with, if you live in New Englandish area. More in the text below 💕 #art #painting #wip

Two paintings on canvas are on a wall. On the left is a woman holding her 3 year old child while holding a framed portrait of a woman. The colors are vibrant, with the figures washed in bright magenta and purples, as is the photo person. Floral patterns emerge from both Michelle the mother and her daughter. On the right is a painting of a man holding a framed photo of a man with text next to him that is a tribute. Behind the man is a bookcase with more photos. He is washed in purple, and his father in the photo is washed in a reddish violet. Floral pattern emerges from the man's hand and frames the painting.

Part of the Forgetting series is a fundamental question: who do we remember and why? The work is meant to create a living archive of memory, a place where people can be cared for, carried forward in collective memory, and held close.

There are so many causes for our current moment, with dehumanization playing a huge part. One area in which we have memory-holed and forgotten is the ongoing pandemic—I see writing declaring lockdowns as the most traumatic part, as if people weren’t dying and becoming incredibly ill, as if we actually truly locked down in the US. Many vulnerable people continue to medically mask, as it allows us to take part in public life. But mask bans proliferate, disabled people are continually seen as disposable and desirable to eliminate…and it is no surprise that we are repeating events from the 20th century of what came after the 1918 pandemic.

I think often of the people who have lost loved ones and cannot grieve their deaths in the same way because of the politicization of the response to the virus, in the ways that other deaths in this country have fallen into this strange category. Despite that initial front page displaying 100,000 names at the beginning stages, we have no monument to the tremendous loss of millions…that is still happening.

As part of my upcoming show on a specific type of mourning photography, that of posing with the photograph of a loved one no longer here, I am photographing people who have lost loved ones and collaborating together on their portrait for the first time in the Forgetting series. The first two are here, waiting to be framed out, and will on display this fall at UNC Charlotte Art Galleries as part of my solo “Breathing By the Wound.” I am incredibly grateful to work with the amazing and incredible Michelle Maroon and Jeff Elgart on these portraits and can’t wait to finish them soon ❤️

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Trying to make sense of the senseless. More in the text boxes below 👇

"Untitled (Five Color Fade Women with Bellflowers)," 48”x61.5”, oil on archival print mounted to panel with frame and found wooden salvage pediment, 2023, photo from Iran sourced in New York, NY

A painted over photograph portrait of five women posing together, with two seated and the other three standing behind them, leaning on them. All women have color washes of pink and magenta, dressed in colorful and patterned clothes. An orange floral vine emerges from left and right that frame the piece, with the background being a strong vibrant blue. The painting is framed with a dark navy blue and has patterning painted on it, with a wood salvage pediment on top painted with navy, white, peach, and lime green.

I’ve tried typing this so many times, and I don’t know how to describe the weight of grief that has been suffocating me these last weeks. Watching my birthplace and home in my heart Los Angeles be attacked with ethnic cleansing through kidnappings and threats, to seeing my father’s home being bombed with civilians targeted, with calls for destruction. I am almost 43, and my entire life has been one of vitriol towards Iranians.

Never mind that Iranians just want peace and freedom and have fought for that for years, within Iran and in the diaspora. Never mind the US and British overthrowing a democratic government in 1953 because Iran took control of its own oil, never mind the US sending arms to Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war (and selling arms to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua), never mind shooting down civilian flight Iran Air 655 during that conflict by a US Navy warship while in Iranian waters killing 290, never mind the last Trump admin assassinating a general and tearing up the nuclear agreement that gave *so much hope* that relations could normalize and maybe, just maybe, I could one day visit and others in the diaspora could return home….never mind our very recent history of watching the US create fake evidence to go to war with Iraq and the fallout from that, the US has to do it again because what else funds empire? After all, the United States’ main export is ruins.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Excited that Untitled (Color Fade Woman with Birdsfoot Violets) has joined the University Museum of Contemporary #Art at UMass Amherst collection! ✨ I’m so thrilled the UMass community will have access to this #painting in the years to come for study and work. 1/2

"Untitled (Color Fade Woman with Birdsfoot Violets)," 39.25"x22", photo sourced from Cairo, Egypt

The painting is a life-size portrait of a woman cupping her face with her hands, washed in colors of lavender, pink and red. The painted over photograph shows the woman looking directly at the viewer with a soft, contemplative expression. From her hands that encircle over her head are a floral pattern of Birdsfoot violets. The background is dark navy with mauve dots, and the painting itself is framed in a found mirror frame painted chartreuse with white and blue details (including the same Birdsfoot violets pattern painted on the top of the frame).

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I'm thrilled to share that "Untitled (Connie)," 46"x30", 2023, photo sourced from Grand Rapids, MI, is now part of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT! I'm so grateful to Chief Curator Keffie Feldman for selecting this piece. She'll be on display May 28 thru next year, so say hi if nearby 👋 #art

A portrait painting of a woman facing forwards and looking to her left/audience right. The painting is a painted over photograph—the photo underneath is from the 1930s-40s, probably an old photo booth image. Half of her face is washed with a vibrant reddish purple. Her outfit is aqua blue pinstripes with a yellow collar, and vines of reddish purple emerge from her head and encircle her with coral roses. The background is a pink wall with yellow framed window with a blue curtain. The painting is framed with a found antique mirror frame that has been painted a bright yellow green with a floral pattern of blue vines and yellow flowers.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Slowly wrapping up the last large works for my upcoming fall solo on mourning imagery. I'm taking my own photos for the first time in the Forgetting series—of people who have lost loved ones from COVID. If you live in New England and want to participate, you can DM or email thru my website 💗 #art

View from my studio of two lifesize paintings in progress. On the left is a Victorian woman holding a photo of a baby, presumably hers that has passed away. The painting is on top of a photo, and the woman wears a dark burnt sienna dress, standing next to a purple and red curtained stand. Both the wood of the stand and the chair behind her is orange, and the floor is a patterned dark blue and purple, with the background being a dark peach. On the right is a woman standing behind an old and large radio, holding a photograph of presumably her son, who is wearing a sailor uniform. To the right is a dark hallway and a plant on the ground, and in the very front is a carpet. In front of both paintings is a painting bench and an air filter to the left.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Currently 🧑🏻‍🎨 Text in the images below ✨ #art #wip #painting

The artist, a short white person with dark brown hair, is wearing a olive green t shirt and dark blue shorts standing on top of a paint bucket while painting a lifesize painting. The painting is a photograph substrate of a funerary floral arrangement with the deceased couple's photograph in the center.

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I’ve been working on a show about mourning and grief directly, instead of the usual subtle forms the Forgetting series can take. Grief is often a taboo emotion, and one often hidden or ignored. But you can’t hide grief—it spills out in ways we can’t always foresee, messy and complicated and misplaced anger. As we watch the destruction of so much of public services, wealth and knowledge, that grief is often focused on those who didn’t cause the suffering (marginalized peoples, the vulnerable, etc.) instead of those that have orchestrated this for years to seize more power and wealth from the rest of us. The grief of having chronic illnesses that were *so close* to cures now lost because of lost data, scientists, people who all were working towards so much good.

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Not all is lost—it is worth fighting to protect each other from raids and secret police and harms, to uphold our values and understand the framework for what we are seeing now has been laid down decades and centuries before. Some of this is not new, some of this is far more vicious, and some of this echoes other shameful points in history. Hiding our heads in the sand will not fix this, but the good news is there are opportunities aplenty to work together to protect and keep what we hold dear. Grief is a marker of love, and it can also be a call to action.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

So thrilled to receive my copy of In Memory: Remembering as a creative act, the catalog for In Memory at Utah MOCA curated by Laura Allred Hurtado. The book has images of the works, as well as essays on themes of the show. Excited to read this and grateful to have been curated into the show 💗 #art

A hand holds a black and white book whose cover says In Memory Remembering as a creative act, edited by Laura Allred Hurtado, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Behind the hand and book is a painting of a painted over portrait of a woman washed in lavender with little dots that look like stars all over her. She rests her head in her hands, and her elbows are propped onto a black and yellow pillow. The background is dark blue purple, and from her hands energy a floral pattern of coral vines and turquoise blue star flowers.

A hand holds a black and white book that is opened to show on the left an image of one of my paintings, Untitled (Father and Two Daughters and Painted Backdrop with Campions), and on the right is 1. Embodied Memory, Work: Ana Mendieta, Julia Jacquette, and Daisy Patton. Then it says Text: Whispering Cave by Raquel Cecilia, Esculturas Rupestres by Kristina S. Gibby. Behind the hand and book is a painting of a painted over portrait of a woman washed in lavender with little dots that look like stars all over her. She rests her head in her hands, and her elbows are propped onto a black and yellow pillow. The background is dark blue purple, and from her hands energy a floral pattern of coral vines and turquoise blue star flowers.

A hand holds a black and white book whose back cover has a quote from the book by Laura Allred Hurtado, essays by and the list of artists from the show. Behind the hand and book is a painting of a painted over portrait of a woman washed in lavender with little dots that look like stars all over her. She rests her head in her hands, and her elbows are propped onto a black and yellow pillow. The background is dark blue purple, and from her hands energy a floral pattern of coral vines and turquoise blue star flowers.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Current #wip in my studio 💕 Part of an upcoming show on mourning photos at UNC Charlotte #art #painting

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I've been thinking a lot about eugenics and how it never left...more in the images and on my website: www.daisypatton.com/put-me-back-...

Years of work went into “Put Me Back Like They Found Me,” a series on forced sterilization in the US and Puerto Rico. It’s a series that I think of often, and while eugenics never left this country, its stark rise during the still on-going pandemic—the declaration that only the strong should survive, that “the vulnerable will fall by the wayside” (Anthony Fauci)—that same twin hells of eugenics and fascism that happened post-1918 is very much present. As one of the vulnerable that is seen as disposable, it’s been incredibly hard though necessary to work on these series on reproductive justice, and just heartbreaking to see how easily our society has lost so many civil rights in the name of white supremacy and patriarchy. The past is not present indeed, and we have every opportunity to set things right and fight back against the dismantling of our collective rights and realize our fates are bound together, that harms against one are harms against all.

From the statement: “Put Me Back Like They Found Me” centers the stories of cis female survivors of horrific, regular practices of forced sterilization in the United States. I embroider the portraits of survivors as a nod to domestic labor, “women’s work,” and thread as a metaphor for life. For living survivors, the work is a collaboration between the women and myself; each portrait is designed to contain a chosen element that has significance in their lives. Hospital gowns display painted text that focus on various survivors and the sufferings they have endured. It is truly impossible to understand the tremendous pain and violation forced upon so many people at the hands of governments, institutions, and doctors in the name of progress and white supremacy. There is a through line that connects eugenics to forced sterilization to loss of liberty and even genocide.

"Melvina Hernández," Embroidery, 23" diameter, 2016, an embroidered portrait of a Mexican American woman wearing a white collared shirt with red and white checkerboard, and on either side of her are flowers from her garden. The portrait is framed with a black hoop

A blue worn hospital gown with white text painted on that says: "I don't want it. I don't approve of it, sir. I don't want a sterilize operation...Let me go home, see if I get along all right. Have mercy on me and let me do that." —a woman pleading with the North Carolina eugenics board, 1945

36"x30", 2019

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This #painting was from Before These Witnesses at Harold J. Miossi Gallery. "Untitled (Wedding Couple in Car with Anjou Rose Vines)," 61”x61”, oil on archival print mounted to canvas with fabric, embroidery, fringe, floral buttons, and fabric flowers, photo sourced from Easthampton, MA 🌼 2/2 #art

Detail of "Untitled (Wedding Couple in Car with Anjou Rose Vines)," showing the top left of the painting and close up of the flowers stitched on, as well as the wedding couple with a closer view of their faces.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In repression, tenderness and joy can exist—they are essential for surviving, to push for better futures, to emphasize how important each of our lives are. A photo is documentation, historical and personal, a declaration that we lived, we loved, and we were here—and can never be erased. 1/ #art

A lifesize painting of a painted over photograph of two white men inside a car. One is dressed in a bridal outfit (on the right), color washed in aqua with gold earrings. On the right the man is half washed in a magenta red, and both are smiling happily. The car is a reddish purple with a yellow ribbon attached, and coming from the bride is an Anjou rose floral pattern that circles downward. The painting is framed with fabric that is white with green and blue floral patterning and birds, and stitched on top and the top sides are many fabric flowers that are white, yellow, and coral. More flowers dangle from each side in a small bunching, and at the bottom, there is a line of flowers, mostly yellow with a few white, that dangle from the piece, almost like the traditional tied objects to the wedding car driving away.

Detail of "Untitled (Wedding Couple in Car with Anjou Rose Vines)," showing the dangling flowers on the right side of the painting, as well as some of the "bride" in the painting.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Every single time I hear someone say "during COVID" as I continue to be shut out from public life five years later, I want to scream. It makes me trust them less because they don't see how many people have been affected. They don't care about millions of people harmed and still harmed by this.

The meme of Ben Affleck looking like his soul has left his body as he smokes outside. On top is cut out white box with black text that says "During COVID" "During the pandemic"

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

"Untitled (Wedding Portrait with Children and Rug and Orange Vines with Multicolored Flowers)," 111”x117”, oil on archival print mounted to canvas with fabric, embroidery, tassel fringe, floral buttons, and fabric flowers, photo sourced from Cairo, Egypt 2/2 #art #painting

Detail of "Untitled (Wedding Portrait with Children and Rug and Orange Vines with Multicolored Flowers)," showing a bit of the left window panel of the framing fabric with a bouquet, and the painting of the bride with her pink bouquet. The orange vine comes from her hands and heads left, coming off the "frame" of the painting and returning to come back towards her head.

Detail of "Untitled (Wedding Portrait with Children and Rug and Orange Vines with Multicolored Flowers)," showing the dressed in dark olive/hunter green groom's youngest daughter who is looking off to the top right, rather than at the camera/viewer. She is mid-clap, and a small orange vine emerges from her hands and circles behind her head. All three fabrics that frame the painting are visible to the right, as well as the tassels and the embroidery that frames the painting.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Next week is the final week of "Before These Witnesses," beautifully curated by Tim Stark at Harold J. Miossi Gallery at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. The show ends Mar. 14th, and I so appreciate all who have visited for their time and care with the work 💖 1/2 #art #painting

Large, lifesize painting of a painted over photo of a wedding portrait with the bride, groom, and their children. I interpret the scene as the bride and her two daughters, dressed in green on the left side, with the groom whose daughters are dressed in bright coral on the right. The two oldest daughters are laying down in front, while the youngest are holding onto their parents (on the left, she holds her mother's veil). The girls are on a draped elaborate Persian rug. The bride is dressed in bright yellow with a bright dark pink wash over her face, shared her daughters' hands. The groom stands to the right with a purple wash on his hands, and that same wash shared with his daughters though their faces and hands are washed in purple. They all stand inside with brick red wood paneling to either side of them. The painting is framed with fabric, tassels, and flowers. At the top sides are large panels of the floral fabric that mimics the bouquet the bride holds, and at the bottom of that panel is a reddish orange tassel trim. The top of the framing is that fabric molded and crunched down with a geometric dark grey and white pattern fabric. Under the window panels is the remaining fabric, black with florals and the window panel fabric, interspersed with the same tassel trim and white flowers. The painting is also framed with orange embroidery, a nod to the bright orange floral vines that emerge from the bride and groom's hands and encircle the painting and their daughters.

Detail of "Untitled (Wedding Portrait with Children and Rug and Orange Vines with Multicolored Flowers)," showing a cropped scene of the two older daughters laying down, the Persian rug and its ornate patterning in lavender, blue, and dark ochre, as well as the floral fabric at the bottom with the white fabric flowers and a portion of the reddish orange tassel trim.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Looking at a mirror expecting to see yourself and instead seeing another—a painted adorned photo—is a breakage from time. A photo also has its own history of looking, and also of being held, cared for, loved. How different our circumstances could be if we cared for each other as much as ourselves.

A detail of "Untitled (Purple Bride in Green with Yellow Bouquet)," showing a side view of the frame and its dimensional qualities (small geometric shapes painted in white, gold, dark green, and white), as well as close up of the bride's head and the floral vines framing above her.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"Untitled (Purple Bride in Green with Yellow Bouquet)", 50.5”x25.75", oil on archival print mounted to panel with found antique mirror frame, photo from Iran sourced from NYC, NY Time is a series of cycles, endlessly repeating until we finally learn from our pasts and break out from them. 1/ #art

A lifesize portrait of a bride holding a yellow flower bouquet, leaning against an object. This painted over photo of the bride has floral vines emerging from her hands, and she is dressed in a green dress with a veil that has metallic sheen to it. Her face is washed with bright purple and magenta, and the painting is framed with an antique Eastlake mirror frame that is also painted green with gold, lighter Kelly green, and white details.

This painting is part of "Before These Witnesses" at the Harold J. Miossi gallery, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo through March 14

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Studio view #wip for a fall solo at UNC Charlotte ✨ #art

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

You have until Feb. 22 to visit the show! I have two works in show including: “Untitled (Pink Family with Light Aqua Flowers)," 80"x68", 2021, photo sourced from Beijing, China 💞 3/3 #art

Detail of “Untitled (Pink Family with Light Aqua Flowers)," 80"x68", showing one of the matriarchs of the family seated, dressed in yellow, with one woman leaning on her chair dress in light pink on the left, an adolescent girl on the far right and another woman standing behind. A black vine with aqua flowers flow in front of the seated woman, whose face is partially washed with a bright pink on the left side of her face.

Detail of “Untitled (Pink Family with Light Aqua Flowers)," 80"x68", showing the shoes of the far right women, the girl's an abstract shape of lime green and the woman's with some shading in dark magenta. They stand on a Barbie pink ground, and you can see the purple background with grey lines behind them. On the left is the lower part of the chair of the seated woman. Some of the floral vine is also visible.

Detail of “Untitled (Pink Family with Light Aqua Flowers)," 80"x68" showing the women not seated—each have a color wash over their face. The two women on the left are in purple pink, while the adolescent girl on the right is bright pink. They all look at the viewer, and you can see the backdrop of purple with grey vertical lines.

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