Come and Dine
John 21:12Kitchen
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The fire was lit before anyone came ashore
From across the room it is mostly light. The sand is pale, the water still holds the night, and a small fire of coals sits low on the shore with the smoke going straight up. One boat is drawn up and empty, its rope slack on the sand. The figures are far off, and the nearest one has stopped walking.
Hung over the place where the food gets made, it lets the feeding feel like something more than chores. The room is quiet in the morning, and so is the picture.
One friend calls it a breakfast already made before anyone arrives. Another sees a boat brought in after a night that caught nothing, pulled up while it was still dark. Someone else sees only an empty shore at the hour before questions, and says it looks like new mercies every single morning. None of them are wrong, and nobody has ever called it churchy.
The smoke goes straight up, so the air is still
I keep coming back to the smoke. It goes straight up, which means the air is still, and the day has not started asking anything yet. The fire is small. Someone lit it before the boat came in, and whoever lit it is not in the frame. The water still holds the colour of the night, the sand has begun to take the light, and between them runs that thin line where the morning decides to arrive.
The boat is what I look at last. Drawn up, rope slack, nothing in it. I hope whoever hangs this finds the shore already warm at the end of a long stretch of feeding people, and that the room she works hardest in keeps one wall that asks nothing back.
The two people who take this one home
One buys it for herself, usually around the first meal cooked in a new place, with boxes still in the hall and the oven not yet worked out. She will tell you she does not want stuff, that she has everything she needs and no space for more. This goes up anyway, before the plates are unpacked.
The other buys it for a wedding, a new house, or for the woman who has fed a family through a hard season and never got fed herself. She writes something short in the card, bless this home and the people who eat here, and lets the shore say the rest.
It lives in the kitchen, on the wall above the sideboard at the dining end, the 60x80 cm sitting at the centre of the morning wall.
What arrives at the door
- 170 gsm matte paper Uncoated, printed to its edges, no shine under a kitchen light.
- 12 mm black wood frame Flat square profile, 22 mm deep, matte, plexiglass front, no mat, on 170 gsm coated silk paper.
- Three sizes 30x40, 45x60 and 60x80 cm. The 60x80 holds a dining wall on its own.
What people ask about this one
1.What is the story of Jesus making breakfast on the shore?
2.What scripture print is good for a dining wall?
3.What is a good christian wedding gift for the kitchen?
4.Will it look churchy in my kitchen?
Pick the size your wall can hold
Framed or as a sheet, in three sizes, with the largest made for the wall above a sideboard.
