Secular Self Emptying
Secular Buddhist Network, 2021 (revised 2025)
David Patten does not claim to deliver a definitive ‘secular self-emptying’, but rather invites r… more 

59 Mind-Form Slogans (2025)
“In all activities, train with the slogans.” – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche #9.

Aesthetic Thresholds: Barnett Newman’s Zip and Jaspers’ Limit-Situation
https://davidpattenwork.com/33-barnett-newman-stations-2024/, 2025
This paper explores the philosophical alignment between Barnett Newman’s abstract expressionist a… more 

Long View | Index 2011-12
Jubilee Arts Archive, 2023
Index to a ‘long view’ of public art that covers the period 1940 to 2010, and notes the shared sp… more 

Long View | Texts 2011-12
Jubilee Arts Archive 2023
Texts relating to a ‘long view’ of public art that covers the period 1940 to 2010, and notes the … more 

Meshworking Cultural Well-Being
Ixia, 2011
The inclusion of ‘cultural well-being’ in the NPPF, March 2012, returns public art to the much ov… more