“Awareness reigns most clearly when nothing is required of it.”

Ninth Octave is a painting practice through which Patricia Reise explores coherence as lived presence. Each work emerges from an inwardly attuned field, where perception, participation, and rest unfold without instruction or narrative closure. Moving across rhythmic structures and quiet intervals, the paintings invite a sustained encounter with well-being as something inhabited rather than sought. Together, they form a resonant continuum—open, unforced, and grounded in the dignity of perceptual experience.