Title: "Hands of Joy "

Medium: color pencil on cotton paper, substantially digitally expanded and altered

Dimensions of Original: original pencil drawing collection is about 4 x 5'. I digitally altered and expanded it so that, when it hung in the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California, it was about 20 x 25' in size.

Description: I was asked to do this collection to cover a large wall in the western nave of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. Because of the large amount of space to cover, and the small amount of time I had to prepare this piece, I drew it on smaller pieces of paper and then blew the pieces up to be about 4 times their original size. In the church there is a round window where the bird is found in this piece. Later, when the piece was taken out of the sanctuary, I drew the bird, which represents the Holy Spirit (the window in the church is also of a bird). The hands represent God the Father. On the opposing nave there is a cross, which represents God the Son, thereby rounding out the trinity. With this piece gone from the sanctuary, now only two symbols of the trinity remain in the sanctuary (the cross and the window with the dove). This collection was part of an art missions festival that took place at the church in the Fall of 2004.