A Well of Water Springing Up
John 4:14Kitchen
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The one wall in this room that is yours
Step closer and the country opens out. Pale hills, a road the colour of dust, a second road leaving it at a small angle and going down, the way roads do when they know where the water is. At the bottom there is a well, one round mark of blue in a whole dry land.
Two figures stand beside it in the flat light of noon. Neither of them is leaving. Whatever is said there stays between them, and that is the use of it: you can look at it every morning and it never finishes.
One person sees a traveller who took the road nobody takes. Another sees two people talking at a well in the middle of the day, when nobody else goes out. A guest who does not share the faith sees the one spring of water in a dry country and asks where it came from, and the room has already answered for you: this is a home where something is held quietly.
The short road bends down to the water
From up here the land is mostly road. One line runs on toward the town, sure of itself, and a shorter line leaves it and drops away to the left, down a slope, to the one blue mark in the whole picture. I keep following that second line. It is the way nobody needed to go. I keep looking at how small the two figures are beside the water, and how long they stay there.
What I hope is this. That whoever lives with this map finds the short road early in the day, before the long one starts asking. That the well stays where it is. That the water in it is not something she has to carry in from anywhere else.
Two kitchens, and one of them is not yours
One woman buys it for herself. She plans a meaningful scripture for the day that she rests upon and prays upon, and she would rather have it as a picture than as a sentence on a board. She is first awake, she wants something warm to look at while the coffee goes through, and she is finished with anything that reads like a sign.
The other buys it for a friend whose kitchen is the room everyone ends up sitting in. That friend says she truly does not want stuff, she has everything she needs and no space for more, so this goes in the box instead: something to look at, not another thing to keep track of.
It hangs at 45x60 cm on the wall she faces at the sink, beside the window, as the left panel of three.
What arrives at the door
- 170 gsm matte uncoated paper Print only, printed to its edges, no shine under a kitchen window at seven in the morning.
- Black wood frame, 12 mm wide Flat square profile, 22 mm deep, matte finish, plexiglass front, no mat, on 170 gsm coated silk paper.
- Three sizes 12x16 in / 30x40 cm, 18x24 in / 45x60 cm, 24x32 in / 60x80 cm.
What people ask before it goes up
1.What bible verse is good for a kitchen wall?
2.What does a well of water springing up mean?
3.Is there scripture wall art that is not typography?
4.Which size fits above a kitchen sink?
The kettle goes on again tomorrow
Pick the size for the wall you face at the sink, framed in black wood or as a single sheet.
