I Am the Vine
John 15:5Kitchen
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The whole field, laid out from above
It reads like a map. Rows of vines drawn from a little above, the way a field looks once you have climbed the hill behind it, green lines running out into the low light.
Come nearer and the rows all lean the same way. However far out a row begins, it bends and arrives at one root near the foot of the picture, and one small pale figure stands where they all come in. Nothing is labelled and nothing is spelled out. It gives the kitchen one quiet thing to rest on and asks nothing else of the room.
One person looks at it and sees rows of vines all running back to one root. Someone else sees workers arriving at the field at different hours, early and late, all of them in the same field by evening. Another stops on the pale figure and says nothing about it at all. Nobody needs to agree, which is why it sits well in a room where people talk for hours and no one is being told what to think.
From up here, the field makes sense
From up here the field is quiet and orderly, and I keep following the rows down. Whichever row I start on, near or far out at the edge, it turns in and arrives at the same place. That is the part I look at longest. Not the leaves. The turning.
One pale figure stands where the rows come together, small enough that you could walk past it without noticing, and it is not hurrying anywhere. I hope whoever lives with this map finds her own row on it, and sees how short the distance is from the far edge back to the middle, and how little of that walking she did on her own.
The thank-you that is not another mug
There is the group that has met around a kitchen table all term, and now the last week is here. They want one thank-you for the woman who hosted every time, and she has already told them what she wants: nothing, your house had enough stuff in it. So they choose one framed thing, for one wall, and sign a card instead of filling a basket.
And there is the woman who sat in that group and found it was the one place she was actually known. She buys it for her own kitchen, because that is the room where it happened, and she does not need a word printed on it to remember.
It hangs above the sideboard where the group sat, the 45x60 cm as the right panel of a three-print wall.
What arrives in the box
- 170 gsm paper Matte uncoated on the print only sheet, coated silk behind the glass on the framed one. No shine under a kitchen light.
- 12 mm black wood frame Flat square profile, 22 mm deep, matte finish, plexiglass front, no mat, the print running to the inner edge.
- Three sizes 30x40 cm, 45x60 cm and 60x80 cm. The 45x60 is the one that sits above a sideboard.
What people ask before they choose it
1.What is a good thank you gift for a bible study leader?
2.What does abide in me mean in John 15?
3.What should I hang in a home office prayer space?
4.Will it look like a religious poster in a kitchen?
One wall in the room where you all sat
Three sizes, framed or as a single sheet, with the verse from John 15 as its anchor.
