I Have Found My Sheep
Luke 15:6Living room
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Somebody went back for the one that stopped
The hill is drawn from a little above, the way you would see it if you had climbed the next ridge. Green folds, a thin path that bends twice, and ninety-nine pale shapes standing together in the corner of a field.
Far along that path, one small white shape is lying down in a clearing, and a figure is still walking toward it. The distance is the whole picture. In the evening, when the room is quiet and the worry starts up again, there is somewhere to set it down.
People read it differently in front of you. One sees a shepherd who walked a long way for one animal. One sees the one that stopped and was found lying down. One sees a whole flock left standing while somebody goes back. Nobody agrees, and nobody has to, and it still looks like real art on the main wall rather than something from a church shop.
The walk is longer than it looks
I keep coming back to the distance. From up here the flock is a handful of pale marks in one corner of the field, and the path leaves them and bends twice before it reaches the clearing. You can measure that walk with your eye.
The one that stopped is lying down. It is not walking back, and nothing is being asked of it. I look at the small white mark, then at the space still left between it and the figure on the path, and I am glad the space is honest. What I hope this hill gives the room it hangs in is the sense that far is only far, never too far, and that the going back has already started.
Two women choose this one
One buys it for herself. She prays in the time before sleep, when the house is finally still and the worry is loudest, and she has been saying the same name to God for years without telling the whole room about it. The hill goes up where she can see it from her chair.
The other buys it for a friend from her prayer group, a woman praying for a grown child of her own. That friend is hard to buy for. She will tell you she has everything she needs and no space for more stuff, and then she will stand in front of this one for a long time.
It hangs above the sofa, usually the 60x80 cm, often as the left half of a pair with the crossing map.
What comes to the door
- 170 gsm paper Matte uncoated as a sheet, coated silk inside the frame. Printed to the edges, no shine under a lamp.
- 12 mm black wood frame A flat square profile, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, matte, plexiglass front, no mat around the picture.
- Three sizes 12x16 in / 30x40 cm, 18x24 in / 45x60 cm, 24x32 in / 60x80 cm. The largest holds a sofa wall on its own.
Before it goes up on the wall
1.What does the parable of the lost sheep mean?
2.What christian art works in a living room without looking churchy?
3.How do you hang a pair of prints above a sofa?
4.What can you say when you give this to someone praying for a grown child?
The hill can be up by the weekend
Pick the size that suits the wall, framed or as a sheet, and the evening room has something steady in it.
