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Praying with finger paints

May your creating be your prayer, writes Ashley Mason Brown.

Photo contributed.

I found fingerpainting as an art form by accident. I had placed too much acrylic on my canvas and threw my hands into the globs of paint and smeared it around, creating colorful splotches. The more I smeared, the more the colors married until the canvas was covered in a muddy brown.

It was pretty ugly.

I didn’t care. I had fallen back into a moment of childhood. The confines of adulthood were removed as my fingers smashed the paint...

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