Home: An Illustrated Journal

Home is an illustrated semi-autobiographical journal by artist and

author Jeffrey Schweitzer created between 2016 and 2019. During this

period the artist spent a significant amount of time rebuilding a 1957

Stearling travel trailer and using it as a mobile studio space in

which to work on art projects. The text for this project is

essentially a group of very short anecdotes typed with an old

typewriter. All of the edits and imperfections in the texts were

deliberately left in the book to embrace the informal journal-like

quality of the project. Many of the illustrations in this book are

very small pen and ink paintings merely a few inches in size. These

originals were created using layers of handmade paper varnished

together, giving these pieces a dream-like vinete that alludes to the

idea of faded memories. When all of this content was brought together

to create the book Home, it was organized more in the spirit of a

curated exhibition of writing and illustrations only loosely linear

but emblematic of a period in time and style shift in the artists

production. This is the first time we see the artist typing stories

directly onto very small, layered paintings and taking a more informal

approach to storytelling