Did the series based on the Navajo and Pendleton blankets come after the computer-generated work?
JF: Those computer prints got autobiographical and really depressing. I decided it was time for a change. The ideas for the blankets came in when, I hate to say it’s a break from serious things, the subject matter of the earlier pieces was getting a little bit depressing and I felt a need for distraction. I’ve always been fascinated with issues of pattern and color and I think that I probably did blanket pieces before. If you look at some of my work you realize that a lot of the designs are really symmetrical, like the designs that are on Plateau blankets. These designs come into my work naturally, and I like to think about these pieces as a whole. I’m creating my own images with a reference to blanket and basket designs, but I feel that I’m in the first person with those designs rather than simply talking about them from the outside or replicating artifacts. LA: The work based on the legends of the Puget Sound peoples seem to be more narrative, like The Changer II and Grandmother’s Mo
