Living and working in Taos, New Mexico, Christine Taylor Patten was originally a sculptor and was also a pioneer of laser art before turning to drawing as her major arena. Working with a crow quill pen and ink on paper, she makes drawings that range from the intimate (2.5 x 2.5 cm) to the monumental, having taken 14 years to complete one drawing, Imagine7 (to the seventh power, 2001-2015) measuring 2.3 x 7.3 metres using the same gesture and material as she created 2000 micro drawings, one for each of the two millennia of the common era. Her ongoing project is a series of Peace drawings, creating an image for the word peace in 27 languages each evolving from the preceding drawing in exploration of the infinite possibilities she discovers in relation to the turning plane. She has had numerous solo shows, was exhibited at Arter, was part of Saltwater at the 14th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov Bakargiev in 2015 and participated in group shows in Taos, Sante Fe, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Washington DC and in New York galleries, notably at the Drawing Center curated by Catherine de Zegher, as well as Leyden Gallery in London and at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery of the University of Leeds.