Serra's Mallorca

By Craig Alan Huber

Limited edition print portfolio honoring Saint Junípero and the land where he became a Franciscan

Artwork and Introduction by Craig Alan Huber

Includes seven original 11x14 gelatin silver prints

Your choice of seven prints from a selection of 21 images

Each print under and over-matted to 16x20 inches with archival 4-ply

Housed in an archival black buckram portfolio case

Limited to an edition of 30 portfolios

15% of the profits to be donated to the Fray Serra Museum in Mallorca

At the young age of 16, Miquel Joseph Serra was delivered by his parents to the Convento at the Cathedral in Palma, Mallorca. He donned his Franciscan habit on September 14, 1730, just two months shy of his seventeenth birthday. After spending the requisite year in relative seclusion as a Franciscan novice in the Convento de Santa Maria de Los Angeles de Jesús, he was formally admitted into the Order. He chose to mark this transformation by changing his given name: Miquel Joseph took the name Junípero, after the early companion of Saint Francis, whom Serra greatly admired.

Until the Spring of 1749 when he left for Mexico and eventually Alta California, Fray Junípero Serra kept very busy spreading the word on his native island of Mallorca. He gave sermons mostly in his home town of Petra, and at various parishes in the larger city of Palma. This portfolio and a resultant larger body of artwork honors the places Serra delivered missions to on his native island, before leaving for Mexico, never to see his family again.

From the grand Cathedral in Palma to the simple yet elegant Ermita de Bonany in Petra, the Spirit of place is revealed. Each scene was carefully envisioned – with patience I sought to feel a piece of Serra’s Spirit move through the frame during the long exposures, to capture It for posterity on film and later in print. My hope is that you can feel and see It as well.

– Craig Alan Huber, 2015

Source: Junípero Serra, California’s Founding Father, by Steven W. Hackel, 2013

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