He Took Him in His Arms
Mark 9:36Nursery
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Held in the middle of everyone
Late afternoon, the blinds half down, him asleep on your shoulder and your arm gone numb. You are not going to move. From the chair you can see the picture over the chest of drawers, and you look at it the way you look out of a window.
A circle of figures leaning in, the grown ones standing back a little, and at the centre a small pale shape held in someone's arms. No faces. The light does not seem to fall on the child so much as start there. Nobody in the scene is hurrying, and the longer you live with it the more it sets the temperature of the room: calm to look at when the house is dark, and still right on that wall when he is ten and the cot is long gone.
One friend sees a child set in the middle of grown-ups and held. Your mother sees a circle of people leaning in toward one quiet figure. Someone else says it is a family making room for the smallest person there. They are all telling the truth, and none of them has to be corrected. That is the kind of thing hanging in your house now.
The light finds the smallest one first
I keep coming back to the middle of this one. Everyone is leaning in, and the smallest shape there is the brightest. The light does not arrive from somewhere else and land on him; it seems to begin with him and move outward into the shoulders of the people closest. The arms around him are not tight. They are simply there, the way a doorway is there.
What stays with me is how unhurried the circle is. No one is reaching past this moment for the next one. There is a pause in it, and the pause is the whole picture. I hope the room slows half a step for whoever walks past this, and that on the long nights the small lit figure in the middle is company.
The wall above the drawers is still bare
One of you buys it for yourself, in the last weeks, when the room is painted and the chest of drawers is in and that wall above it is still empty. You have not asked anyone for anything for yourself. This is the one thing you choose, and you choose it the way you would choose a picture for any other room, because your home should make you happy and be a reflection of you.
The other of you is a friend, or her mother, standing in a shop before the shower and not wanting to add another stack of soft toys. You want to give her something that is for her and not only for the baby, something that will still be up there when he is at school. It is silent, but very effective, and better than words on a card.
It hangs above the chest of drawers, at eye level from the rocking chair, and it takes a companion piece well on the same wall; the 45x60 cm is the size most people choose for that spot.
What arrives
- 170 gsm matte paper Print only: an uncoated sheet printed to its edges. Matte, no shine under a lamp at night.
- 12 mm black wood frame Framed: a flat square profile, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, matte finish, plexiglass front, no mat, on 170 gsm coated silk paper.
- Three sizes 30x40, 45x60 and 60x80 cm (12x16, 18x24 and 24x32 in). The middle one suits the wall above a chest of drawers.
- Giclee print Printed giclee, which keeps the pale washes soft and the edges gentle rather than hard.
Questions people ask about this one
1.What happens in Mark 9 36 when Jesus takes the child in his arms?
2.What is a good bible verse gift for a new mom?
3.What bible verse art is good for a baby shower gift?
4.What size suits the wall above a chest of drawers in a nursery?
5.Will this still suit the room when he outgrows the nursery?
The room is ready before he is
Print only or framed, in three sizes, so you can pick the one that fits the wall you will be looking at for years.
