Arctic Refuge Sutra (Muskox Productions), is a stunning visual encounter with the heart of the arctic national wildlife refuge, accompanied by a reflection on the deep teachings of a wild landscape. Partial proceeds of this DVD go to Alaska Wilderness League and it is packaged in eco-friendly case. For more information: www.patriciareis.org; to order: www.filmbaby.com.

"The Art of Revelation and the Restoration of Memory" in Women, Trauma, and Visual Expression, Amy Stacey Curtis, 2005

"Mnemosyne's Well of Rememberance" in Muses: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Spring 70, 2004

"Psycho-Erotica: Pursuing the Perverse with Madonna" in Saga: Best New Writings on Mythology, Ed. Jonathon Young, White Cloud Press, 1996

"The Self-Seeding Goddess and the Mysteries of Creativity" in From the Realm of the Ancestors: Essays in Honor of Marija Gimbutas, Joan Marler ed., Knowledge, Ideas, and Trends, Inc., 1997

"Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America," unpublished paper presented at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, 1996

"The Mythologies of Remembering," Sojourner: The Women's Forum, August, 1995

"Female Gender Trouble: Pursuing the Perverse with Madonna," The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Vol.12, Number 3, 1993

"Her Body, Ourselves: Redfining Beauty and Power," Radiance, no. 34, Spring, 1993

"Dreams: Poetic Memory," Catalogue essay for curated art exhibit, "Dreams: Poetic Memory," University of Southern Maine, 1992

"Unveiling Aphrodite," The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Vol. 9, Number 1, 1990

"Women's Poetry on Breast Cancer," Holistic Medicine, September/October, 1989

"A Woman Artist's Journey," The Womanspirit Sourcebook, Ed., Patrice Wynn, Harper and Row, 1988

"The Dark Goddess," Woman of Power Magazine, Issue Eight, Winter, 1988

"Good Breast, Bad Breast, This is the Cuckoo's Nest: Ken Kesey and the Myth of Matriarchy," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Fall, 1987

"Facing Medusa: The Dark Goddess and Creativity," Common Boundary, July, 1987

"The Work of Heinz Westman: Review, Interview and Commentary," Patricia Reis and James Harrod, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Spring, 1987

"The Mysteries of Creativity: Self-Seeding, Death, and the Great Goddess," Psychological Perspectives, Spring, 1986

A work of fiction by Patricia Reis
By the time they arrive at the Bauer farmhouse in Illinois in 1871, two German immigrants, Adam Reinhardt and his older sister, Katharina, have acquired a small child of questionable origin named Jacob. Adam marries the only Bauer daughter, Letty, and purchases acres of unopened prairie land from the U.S. Railroad Company. The family heads out together in 1877 to pioneer in Silver Creek, western Iowa. For twenty-five years the family builds up a farmstead out of the prairie. Together they raise a large family: Adam, the head of the family, is an eager German immigrant farmer; Letty, his much younger wife, is prone to fits of temper and visions; Jacob, the child they raise as their eldest son, is a sensitive and lost soul; and Adam's older sister, Katharina, whom they call Tante Kate, is a stern, German speaking, maiden lady with a secret.

In a span of fifty years this pioneering family encounters many misfortunes; the loss of loved ones, the loss of the farm, the loss of sanity, and another more ineffable loss that haunts each of their lives. The story unfolds as each character tells what happened from their particular perspective. Pioneer life is portrayed in all its complexity; courage and determination is countered by personal tragedy and weakness.

This work will appeal to anyone interested in pioneering history, in native and mixed blood peoples, in family story, in women's relationships, in the underlying theme of memory and trans-generational haunting.

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