My newest work, “Triba Magia” which translates to “The Three Wise Women”, or “The Three Magi”, which started with a question:
What if the Zoroastrian mages in the Bible who were following the Star of Bethlehem had been women?
Challenging perspectives of both history and mythos visually is something that consumes me as an artist. I search for the hidden ways our souls use to define our worlds. So often an image speaks to us deeply without words and fills our consciousness with “truths” based on the prejudices associated with those images.
While this doesn’t look like a typical depiction of searching for the Christ child, in my spirit it is exactly what I feel it would look like had the wise men been women. In my deeper soul, knowing that there were women seeking Jesus beyond and before men. Women supported Jesus throughout his ministry, and were an integral (if scantily mentioned) part of the early church.
Artistically, the three birds allude to the trinity within us of Maiden, Mother and Crone, reflecting the three figures themselves. The bare trees represent as figuratively “not yet bearing fruit” because all of the world is waiting for His birth. And of course, the “Star” of Bethlehem which is the astrological conjunction the mages knew as the sign of this historical event. I chose the colors of autumn to winter allowing the timeframe to fit the period of just before the winter solstice, when light returns to the world anew.
I am offering this as a card this year, and also as a limited edition print, which can be found here:
Cards – https://etsy.me/3IlsK0q
8X10 – https://etsy.me/2ZWlIy1
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