Resettlement.
It wasn’t until I moved to Newfoundland 10.5 years ago that I really learned about and began to understand the term and the significant cultural meaning it has with this place. As long as I’ve known about it, it’s fascinated me. I’ve watched documentaries, listened to songs and read books on the subject. The first pieces of art I bought for my first apartment here were the two iconic black and white photographs of three children standing on shore watching a hou...se being towed, and the other, a handful of men in a small boat towing a house behind them. I found those images beautiful and also haunting. The Newfoundland I moved too was not the Newfoundland that once was.
When I first started the Newfoundland and Labrador doll collection in the summer of 2020, I almost immediately knew I wanted to create a collection to honour the communities that have been physically lost to the government centralization programs (mainly) in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
The first Newfoundland and Labrador doll collection will be released at the end of this month and will be the first Resettlement Collection.
I am so incredibly excited about this release and I hope you are too!
*I take no credit for the photo below*