Issues of Domesticity
Various mixed media books
Clay Covers
Clay, assorted papers, canvas; coptic bound
Underwater Secrets
Clay, assorted papers, canvas; coptic bound
A Tempest in a Pot o' Tea, V8
Teabag wrappers, wood; coptic bound
Khadi paper, Portland envelopes, tin; coptic bound
The Ladies' Storage Book
French paper, tyvek, mixed media; Hedi Kyle's storage book structure
The Ladies' Storage Book, detail
Nobody Gets A Free Ride
Recycled building materials (shutters, cut nails, blueprints, aluminum screening, measuring tape); coptic and long stitch bindings
Nobody Gets A Free Ride, detail
The Adventures of K.Sween
Watercolor pencil, graphite, photocopies; carousel binding
The Adventures of K.Sween, detail
How To Build A Community Books
5 hand drawn photocopied instant books
Pick Up The Cupcake broadside
Hand set wood type and ornaments; letterpress printed
collaboration with Bobby Rosenstock
How To Build A Community
Mixed media installation: hand sewn cardboard walls, chipboard floor, letterpress printed and hand embroidered quilt, hand and machine sewn dolls with coptic bound book body parts, instant books
How To Build A Community, detail
Letterpress printed quilt, hand and machine sewn, hand embroidered
10' x 8'
How To Build A Community, detail
Storytellers, letterpress printed muslin, hand and machine sewn; coptic bound book hands
How To Build A Community, detail
Storytellers
Hand and machine sewn muslin and polyester; coptic bound book body parts
Frank's Storytellers
Screenprinted cottons, hand and machine sewn; coptic bound book body parts
Definition of A Clothespin
Cedar, copper, canvas, xerox transfers onto Rives, pamphlet stitched booklets; coptic bound
Definition of A Clothespin detail
Game Piece books
mixed media
How To Build A Community Game
Hand embroidered canvas game board, varying game piece books
ADress Book
Canvas, lithographs, screenprints, mixed media, hand-embroidered; long-stitch binding
ADress Book, detail
To Please My Fancy
Screenprinted handkerchiefs, hand sewn and hand embroidered; mixed media; coptic bound
To Please My Fancy detail
Waiting
Screenprinted Tyvek dress (118" tall), trace monoprints, binder's board sewing box with tools and materials hand made from varying papers
Waiting, detail
Canson paper, library board
Theatre de Marionettes
Offset printed theatre book, offset printed puppets
The Music of My Bricks
15 Chinese Sewing Box books (a Hedi Kyle structure), bound together by a kite string; tyvek, silk, cotton; Architecture and glassine papers dunked and dyed
The Music of My Bricks, detail
Poem by Tim Belden
Trifecta
Letterpress printed muslin; hand and machine sewn, hand embroidered; sewn cardboard boxes with six coptic bound books with material by Amanda Benton in Switzerland's hands and material by Bobby Rosenstock in Mexico's hands
Trifecta; detail
Home::Ruminations on Place(ment)
2011 Installation by Erin Sweeney and Bobby Rosenstock
Life size Storytellers; screenprinted muslin, polyester, hand embroidered, hand and machine sewn; 6 coptic bound books with embroidery and screenprints
The Charm of 1000 Warren Street
9 mixed media collages; lino cuts, photocopies, screenprints, embroidery and text over woodblock printed background by Bobby Rosenstock
Big House
Collaborative mixed-media drawing by Erin Sweeney and Bobby Rosenstock, each panel 3' x 3'
sent through the mail from NH to OH many times...
The Charm of 29 Concord
Screenprinted muslin; hand and machine sewn, hand embroidered
Inspired by The Charm of 5:30, a poem by David Berman
Take that, Lilly P! and Working Girl
Screenprinted muslin; felt; hand and machine sewn
Hand and machine sewn canvas, found belt
Springback Account Book
Let's just say, this took me hours. And, I may have cried a little bit
OxBow
Scraps of handmade board, marbled paper, linen, graphite drawings
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Take that, Lilly P! and Working Girl
Screenprinted muslin; felt; hand and machine sewn Hand and machine sewn canvas, found belt