An "Open Mesh of Possibilities": Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive

POLYP AND LOOM BOOK

These pieces contain printed text from Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) and were displayed as part of Sedgwick’s 2005 exhibition Works in Fiber, Paper, and Proust at Harvard University.

Multi-colored dyed fabrics with letters tied together.

Polyp. No Date. Circa 2005.

This dyed textile piece was designed to resemble a sea anemone or coral polyp.

A three-dimensional artist book with large lettering and woven strings.

Loom Book. Circa 2005.

This cardboard structure with yarn contains text on interwoven strips of transparent acetate and hand-colored papers. 

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