Pattern painting was Rapoport’s decisive break with established schools of art. She experimented with appropriated materials, painting on inexpensive, pre-printed “funky” textiles. This period saw her move away from mark-making and the painterly hand, favoring methods which allowed her work to appear printed and flat. She began making use of her “Pandora’s Box” – a collection of stencils she used to create drawings and paintings in which repetition of form led to the development of a personal visual vocabulary.