It's handmade (out of drawings, paper cutouts and miniature models) and decidedly melancholy.
He presented an installation, Untitled, consisting of two beds positioned upright, the trunks of plantain trees, a portable ancestral altar, a handmade album of drawings and photographs, and other found objects.
"Black line drawings, handmade paper, small wall reliefs, and vintage children book illustrations from around the 1950s to 1980s are just a few items that entice my particular aesthetic," Leech-Cornell says.
Drawings are handmade, the living sign of an ornery human intention, rearing up against a piety.
There are detachable reproductions of Michelangelo drawings on handmade folios created according to centuries-old traditions.
The collection's first New York appearance is a mine of exciting new information: 200 drawings and handmade books that often stun the eye and always touch the heart, by mostly unfamiliar artists.
He lived to work, and he produced a lot: engravings, drawings, watercolors and handmade books of a gemlike funkiness.
Sweet's mixed-media images, which incorporate maps, handmade paper and delicate watercolor drawings, give the book the feel of a travel journal — a wonderful way of accompanying Harkness on her journey.
Tentatively solicitous, he offers up a plate of chocolate brownies with a gentle air of inexpert hospitality, and his bah-humbug misanthropy is difficult to square with his kitchen walls, which are plastered with handmade cards and children's drawings.
The apartment is filled with her "addictions," as she calls her collections of handmade books, zines, records, paintings, drawings, Outsider art and objects like a crocheted anatomical heart by Merrilee Challiss, an Alabama artist, and a hand-stitched stuffed yellow lion she bought for $50 at a store called ReForm School in Los Angeles.
