...It's art that comes from a place that is not from classical training. It is typically a tradition that's been handed down or learned from person to person, by apprenticeship, with no real formal education. And typically folk art, I think, is something that is done on items that are useful... it's of the people for the people... I don't emulate the motifs from the past... I use those elements, the floral, the floral forms, the borders, the layout, the weight, the naive perspective. And I tell