Patty Chang least visible she has ever been in her own work” in her 2005 exhibition "Shangri-La" based on a fictional location in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton. Her recent work, especially "Invocation for The Wandering Lake" (2015–16), draws connections between landscape and the body. Patty Chang Patty Chang (born February 3,1972 in San Leandro, CA) is an American performance artist and film director living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Chang was originally trained as a painter and received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, San Diego. It wasn't until she moved to New York
Oh What a Paradise It Seems themes, including love, lust, life in suburbia, and a sense of displacement. Writing in the "New York Times", John Leonard called the novella "perfect Cheever; it is perfect, period." John Updike, a friend of Cheever, preferred it to Cheever's novel "Falconer", and remarked on the theme of ice skating, which he called his "Wordsworthian hike" and his "connection with elemental purity and the awesome depths above and below". Oh What a Paradise It Seems Oh What a Paradise It Seems is a 1982 novella by John Cheever. It is Cheever's last work of fiction, published shortly before his death from