• Selected Parts of Letters from My Aunt Evelyn, Volume 57: Housework / Barton Lidice Beneš
Selected Parts of Letters from My Aunt Evelyn, Volume 57: Housework / Barton Lidice Beneš Selected Parts of Letters from My Aunt Evelyn, Volume 57: Housework / Barton Lidice Beneš

Selected Parts of Letters from My Aunt Evelyn, Volume 57: Housework / Barton Lidice Beneš

Objects

FA.SA3.0061
Fine Art Collection
overall dimension: 32 x 13.5 cm
1977
Barton Lidice Beneš
Part of a series of sculptural work inspired by the artist’s correspondence with his aunt Evelyn and utilized everyday objects. Fur covered scrub brush housed in a canvas pouch and wrapped in slightly soiled and worn hand towel embellished with blue stitching and also with printed text-- "THIS NEW NEIGHBOR SAID SHE NEVER SAW SO MUCH DIRT AS THERE WAS NEXT DOOR, THAT EVIDENTLY THE RENTERS NEVER VACUUMED OR DUSTED, AND THE POOR THING DIDN'T KNOW THAT SHE WAS TALKING TO SOMEONE ELSE WHO WAS NOT CLEANING." Includes second rectangular piece of old linen with horizontal blue stripe pattern with printed text, "Selected Parts of Letters form My Aunt Evelyn Volume 57 / Housework / Barton Lidice Benes / 1977".