ALL NEW DRAWINGS FROM A NOTED ILLUSTRATOR
Julie Morstad has long excelled at illustration, often working in tandem with
children's writers, but in "The Wayside," the storytelling potential of her
fantastical pictures is fully realized. Within these pages Morstad's worlds
unite, maintaining their ethereal, almost fairy-tale beauty and yet also
offering a loose overarching synthesis through thematic and visual
commonalities.
The work found herein combines the delicate line of Edward Gorey with the color
palette of Marcel Dzama, and emerges as something utterly unique, a combination
of the two with the spirit of Virginia Woolf. Dramatic, poetic, heavy with
symbolism, Morstad's drawings speak for themselves, exploring femininity,
identity,