Way Out There

Patterson opens himself up to strangeness ad outsideness, differentness, which most people don’t….  Most people are very guarded and sort of bored. That’s the last thing Patterson is. Nothing bores him, anything interests him.         Poet/photographer/publisher Jonathan Williams   Patterson was always seeing things in interesting ways…. He has a sense of the unusual and a sense of discovery—a sense of the ridiculous, and wants to share that.”                Alfred W. Brown, founding editor of Brown’s Guide to Georgia Re: St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan (Jargon Society, 1987; University of Georgia Press, 2018)“As the gutsiest mixture of folk art and autobiography imaginable, this opens epic vistas as wide and as old as grass-roots America.” — Robert Rosenblum, art historian “A many-faceted book…. The skeptic has not been born who could indefinitely withstand the alternately seductive and challenging, eloquent and profane, oddly black-inflected voice that speaks from [these] pages…. S