This is an immersive book that was installed in the Mount Pearl Annex from March 1 to 23, 2024. Woodblock engravings and sign-painting by Jennifer Morgan. Typesetting by Virginia Stoddard. This edition included three oil paintings by David Baltzer: “Child of an Invisible Man”, “The Waiting Room”, and “Child of War”. The print of the red evil eye on page 9 is by Mitzi Smyth. The red wool was hand spun by Beth Howley. Most of the origami cranes were made by Mary Little. “Weigh your words” was typeset and printed by Lisa Theodore and installed with the help of Greg Morgan. This art was enhanced by all the visitors to the Mount Pearl Annex who gave their advice to the carrier-pigeon-type-cranes and added their own words to page 27.

Many of the woodblock engravings in this show were based on photographs by Edith Watson, taken at the turn of the twentieth century in Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada, and Quebec.

The text is from an early English translation of “The Juniper tree” based on a German folk tale put in writing by Philipp Otto Runge and included in the first edition of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales in 1812.

Walk into a dark fairy tale with artist Jennifer Morgan | CBC News. Interview by Elizabeth Whitten and Video by Zach Goudie. March 9, 2024.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/jennifer-morgan-grimm-1.7134084

This artwork was made possible with a Professional Projects Grant from ArtsNL and a Newfoundland & Labrador Heritage Mentor-Apprentice Grant, and was produced during a Connections Residency at the St. John’s Arts & Culture Centre and an Association of the Arts in Mount Pearl (AAMP) residency at the Annex.