Erin Dorney
Saranac Lake, NY
www.erindorney.com
IG: @ erindorney

House Zine
2024
Hand block printed cover on Rives BFK paper, waxed linen thread, inkjetprinted pages
4″ x 6.25″

Artist Statement

House Zine is an artist’s book about housing and one renter’s experience in the Adirondack region. A companion zine was created using stories gathered from community members who attended the House Zine launch in Saranac Lake in December 2023. ADK Housing Zine is available to read online and free copies were distributed.

This is a book masquerading as a poetry broadside, with one side featuring a hand printed linocut of a house on fire. The flip side reveals a list poem about all the things we seem to be able to build instead of more housing. The red thread binding the book is unraveled on the outside, adding texture to the multi-colored flames. Flipping through the pages reveals the story of one renter’s struggle to find housing in a rural area of New York, the factors at play in the region, and how it feels to try to find home.

This project was made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.