My husband and I traveled to Puerto Rico last winter to participate in Three Kings Day celebrations.  As Three Kings Eve grew closer, excitement mounted among children and their families.  They filled boxes with hay for the Kings’ horses (there are no camels in Puerto Rico) and prepared for the Kings to visit their home.  I imagined the Kings going from house to house, peering into every window in search of the Christ Child – and of the Christ in every child.  That image led to this painting.

The artist in me was set free at a conference on Creation Spirituality led by Matthew Fox in 1991.  There, in a workshop on Art and the Psalms, the instructor responded to my “oops” with the words, “there is no oops in art,” and decades of shackles fell away.  I have been painting, drawing, sculpting and printing ever since.