Arise and Eat

1 Kings 19:7Kitchen

$24.00

Some weeks you cook a dinner you cannot eat. You have been told to push harder, and what you need is sleep and a hot meal. Above the counter, beside the clock, there is a wilderness seen from a long way up, one tree at the end of a long road, someone lying down in the open and nobody waking him. It is the one thing in the kitchen that asks nothing of you on the days you have nothing left. Friends stop in front of it and ask where it came from, and the answer says more about you than a sign over the stove would.

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Bedroom scripture print gift 1 Kings 19

Bread left where a tired person will find it

From across the kitchen it reads as ground and distance: a pale wilderness seen from a long way up, a road coming in at one edge, and one tree standing where the road gives out.

Closer in, a figure is lying under that tree in the open, and beside him there is a small warmth, bread on the coals, left there for whoever wakes. Nobody in the scene is hurrying anyone. That is what it gives you on the evenings when there is nothing left of you: something on the wall that asks you for nothing at all.

People see it differently. One friend saw someone asleep in the open and nobody waking him. Another saw only the bread, put down where a tired person would find it. A woman who says she is going through a wilderness season saw the road, and how it stops under one tree. It is a real wilderness on the wall, not a tidy phrase, and the house is quieter for having it there.

From the artist

From up here, the shade is the only landmark

Elias Brook

Roads seen from above

I keep coming back to how far the road runs before it stops. It comes in at the low edge of the map, crosses ground with nothing on it, and ends under a single tree. One figure is lying there in the open. From up here he is small, and the whole wilderness leans toward that one patch of shade. Near him, low and warm, is the bread and the coals. Nobody in the picture is standing over him.

What I hope is that whoever lives with this map finds the tree before the end of the road, and lets the walking wait. That the quiet in that one patch of ground moves into the room. That being small out there is not the same as being lost.

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Before it goes in the box

One woman buys it for her own kitchen. She has read that chapter more than once this year, and the line she keeps is the plain one: then he lay down and slept under the broom tree. She wants that on the wall, not more advice.

The other buys it for someone further down the same road. A friend in burnout, or a mother going back to work. She knows her friend would say she truly does not want stuff, she has everything she needs, so she sends the one thing that gives instead of asking. Food and sleep came before the sermon, and this says so without a word.

It hangs in the kitchen, above the counter beside the clock, 45x60 cm, and it holds its own next to a shore and a grain field on the same morning wall.

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What the box holds

170 gsm matte uncoated paper Print only: a single sheet, printed to its edges, no shine under a kitchen light.
Black wood frame, 12 mm Flat square profile, 12 mm wide and 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. The middle one suits a counter or a headboard.

For a burnt-out season

What people ask about this one

1.What does 1 Kings 19:5 say?

In the King James words, Elijah lay and slept under a juniper tree, and an angel touched him and said, Arise and eat. It comes after he has walked a day into the wilderness and asked to be done. The verse reference sits on the print, so the words stay with the picture.

2.Why is Elijah asleep on the ground in this picture?

Because that is where the chapter starts him, and because it is the part people rarely paint. The figures have no faces, so nothing decides for you whether he is grieving or simply spent. Some people see exhaustion, some see the bread set down first, some see a hand that has not landed yet.

3.What is a good gift for a friend coming out of burnout?

Something that offers rest rather than advice. This one is often bought by a friend who has run out of words, because the scene is someone being allowed to sleep with food left within reach. A short note works well with it: no explanation, just that the picture made you think of her.

4.Where should I hang a bedroom print like this?

Most people put it above the chest of drawers or the dresser, on the wall they see from the bed at the end of the day. The 60x80 cm size suits that kind of furniture; 30x40 cm fits a narrow stretch of wall or a bedside nook. Soft lamp light suits the watercolour better than a bright overhead.

5.Will a scripture print look like a motivational poster?

This one is painted as a scene, not a slogan: soft watercolour, faceless figures, one white accent, and the verse reference as a small line. Guests who do not share the faith usually read it as art and ask what the story is. What it says is up to you to answer.

Bedroom bible verse wall art