As early as 1990, in an interview, Heisel declared her view
of graphic pattern, talking about a fabric she designed,
in black and white, based on old woodcuts found in a
book of Celtic medieval symbols: "We wanted prints
but…we found nothing we liked. So we just started
looking around…" One can see, from the small, intense
cluster of paintings and drawings on Heisel's living room
wall, that her sources and influences are informed and
far-flung. There is a silk-screened self-portrait of the
great Conceptual artist Josef Beuys (himself no stranger
to sewing; one of the first works of his I ever saw was
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