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