Dear Patssi Valdez,
My creative juices began flowing immediately after seeing your Italian Neo-Realist or French New Wave inspired scenes as a part of the "No Movie" ASCO initiative, and was only further inspired after seeing what you've accomplished since the 1970s. After investigating and examining the breadth of your work that is the result of multiple art endeavors and reincarnations along the evolution of your career I find myself wondering if relevance ever factors into your artistic choices, and if so to what degree? Would you consider these demarcations between projects to be different movements at times or simply your personal process transforming and expanding? How does one chapter of your artistic life transition into the next? Does it feel completely fluid moving between mediums and particular styles making each integrally dependent on each other, or more disjointed and requiring of inner contemplation before moving onto a new phase? How do you feel about the freedom to bounce back and forth between past and present subjects? Do you ever find yourself second-guessing a decision through introspection or does it feel more instinctual at that level of determination? Being as successful and widely respected as you are it seems apparent that you didn't let the pressures of outside sources effect your metamorphosis as an artist to make something that was ever inauthentic to you. Not only did you rise above exterior influence in the many negative forms it takes when addressing controversial matters in artwork, but instead you fed off that discerning public sphere and were able to use it to your advantage. Lesser artists may have succumb or faltered at the presence of adversity but that would have gone against everything you stand for and believe in, that is why you make me proud to call myself a fellow artist.
Sincerely,
Kellan Eils
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