Where's Primcella?

Description

Helena the Most High waits for her student. Primcella is to take her final test before becoming a Miss Perfect. Mericolt is already seated at his table, his test in front of him. He'll earn his "Mysterious" title if he passes. Suddenly, The Land Where Anything is Possible begins to shake. Helena smiles and calmly calls on the Pearls of Wisdom to balance the planet. No answer. The planet keeps shaking. Mericolt watches as Primcella's nametag bounces up and down before falling off the table and landing upside down in the grass. What does that mean? Before he can pick up her nametag, Zero the Unattached bounces out of the mist, his space jumping shoes carrying him across the student's table. Mericolt sees Zero drop a note that lands in front of Helena. Mericolt picks up the note and reads part of the first sentence before handing the note to Helena: "The Pearls of Wisdom are missing---" Helena gasps when she sees the message. Something is terribly wrong. "Where's Primcella?" she asks.

Growing up in the mountains of Colorado I was inspired daily by the beauty of the ever-changing mountains scenes--the sunsets, the shadows made by the clouds, the fall colors, the movie-set snow scenes. However, at the time I attended school in Steamboat Springs, art was not part of the school curriculum. Not until I attended college did I pursue an art career. My college art instructors had never taught a student with no previous art training. Therefore, I was encouraged to change my major. As a result I had a twenty-year career in business before pursuing my art seriously. Steamboat Springs developed a thriving visual arts community after Eleanor Bliss established the Arts Council, renovating the old railroad depot building for the home. I returned to Steamboat in the 1980s and I resumed my desire to be an artist, enrolling in college and taking classes from the successful local artists. After three years I returned to Houston, Texas and continued my business career, but pursued my art. In Houston I found my art mentor, Polly Hammett, NWS, AWS. My art career started in 1992 when I was invited to join the artists at Archway Gallery in Houston. In 2002 I returned to Steamboat and helped build a vibrant art community as the founding president of Circle 7 Fine Art and co-founder of the ArtWalk. I'm an active member of the Steamboat Arts Council. I show my art at Circle 7 Fine Art, 1009 Lincoln in Steamboat.