Patrick Cruz studied painting, but it was his time at clown school that encouraged him to embrace intuition in his art

In the Studio with Patrick Cruz by Brittany Shepherd from Canadian Art.

On my way to Patrick Cruz’s Toronto home studio, I walked past two shattered mirrors. That’s twice as many shattered mirrors as I’d ever encountered in my life at that point, so there’s no way it meant nothing. Yahoo Answers told me it could foreshadow seven years of bad luck, or “it just means that you have to buy a new one,” or that since mirrors bridge a link between two worlds, “a broken mirror may symbolize an inability to transcend the passage between the two.”

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