Patricia Fraser works with clay and then creates bronze castings of her sculptures. All works in this series contain a certain degree of familiar shapes made up of dense metal castings that offer the viewer individual interpretation. Delicate, fragile, and precarious, the clay sculptures, through the metal solidification, are transformed into something that has substance, weight, and permanence. The cast bronze transfiguration gives strong, solid, and heavy matter to the raw and organic clay artworks. Synthesis is a constant feature noticeable in her sculptures. She deliberately explores minimalistic forms that are associated with symbols and shapes. She also studies the depths of space and surfaces; imperfections and non-intentional effects are at the center of her interest.

Some pieces develop as random, uncomplicated shapes that are at times executed to break the rules of stability, allowing a narrative of ambiguity. Others are conceived as organic forms that reveal their man-made execution, expressing within them human imperfection. Disruptions and breakages are crucial aspects of her artwork, as are lacerations and surface irregularities. She embraces cracks and uneven surfaces, as they prompt the desired finishes she intentionally achieves with the patinas and polished effects on the sculptural bodies.

Her concern in the making of these dramatic pieces is focused on creating forms that generate serial installations with undetermined and uneven contours. The broken, distressed, unfinished sculptures are a radical reduction of familiar shapes that, combined with the placement of the work, truly have no permanent form and can be installed differently depending on the spatial choice. These works result in relief-like wall objects that become installations, modifiable anew each time and in any place. The relief compositions made up of these simple forms create a poetic text when mounted on the wall. The wall, ceiling, and floor are considered by her as integral to her productions, as is the place they occupy. Therefore, the space is tightly connected with the artworks. This playful approach suggests the possibility to calibrate site-specific interventions that allow the transformation of space and contrast the idea of permanency.

Also, light and shadows transform and generate fugitive reflections that provide narrative meaning to the featured forms. The projected shadows are, to her, part of the sculptural experience. The intensity of the light source enhances the reflections that spread out off the wall, captivating the viewer’s glance.

A feature of her artwork is the fascination she perceives when physically making. This intimate exercise of making with her hands gives tangibility to her thinking and material form to her ideas. The sculpture pieces seek to incite imagination rather than stage a determined perspective. However, the titles of the artworks reveal what is implied and suggest her personal narrative to the viewer. The observer is a participant who can immerse themselves to search for meaning and consequently draw from their own imagination and experience to give definition to the work.