Anung and Brita Wolf
The ancient Ojibway legend about Anung was told to me by Steve Fobister. He asked me to popularize it, and this summer Light Messages will be publishing a novella about Anung’s Great Adventures that I wrote hoping to fulfill Steve’s request.
It is a magical story, one that would certainly benefit from illustrations, and Elizabeth Turnbull, the book’s editor, hired Brita Wolf, my daughter, for the task. Brita is a very talented artisan and designer and for the past few years has been amazing us with her paper cuttings. She has prepared ten of them for Anung, each one so wonderfully graceful and pure, and I thought you’d appreciate the sort of magic her images will bring to the story. Creative work in progress can be fun, and first you see an early sketch , then the final image. And yes, that final image is a paper cutting.