In Pleasant Places

Psalm 16:6Living room

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The last boxes went out months ago, and some evenings you still stand in the doorway and cannot quite believe the plot is yours. A lot of heartbreaks later, you found this one. Above the sofa there is a print of fields seen from above, thin pale lines drawn between them, a track that ends at a small blue spring. It is a map of what you were given, hanging where you sit in the evening. Guests notice it before they notice the verse, and they ask, and you answer in your own words. Your home should make you happy and be a reflection of you.

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Psalm 16:6

The path ends at water, and the water is in your own field

Mid-morning the light crosses the long wall before it reaches anything else, and the small line under the fields reads Psalm 16:6. A year ago this room belonged to somebody else.

From the far end of the room it is land seen from above: soft greens, a dry gold, thin pale lines laid between the fields by a careful hand. A track bends twice and stops at a spring, and the spring is the only blue in it. Nothing in the picture is in a hurry. What it gives you is one wall in the house that says, without raising its voice, that this was given.

One friend calls it a family plot, measured out and handed over. Another looks at it longer and sees everything she was given and did not earn. Somebody always points at the water, because the track ends at water and the water sits inside your own fence line. None of them are wrong, and all of it is said quietly, which is the kind of home you keep.

In Pleasant Places framed on the long wall above a living room sofa

From the artist

I keep following the track to the water

Elias Brook

Roads seen from above

I keep looking at this from a little above, the way you look at a valley from the last bend in the road. One field leans wide and open, one is narrow as a hallway, and the pale lines between them were drawn by somebody who was not in a hurry. The track crosses two of them and then stops, and where it stops there is water, a small blue thing no bigger than a thumbprint, already inside the lines.

That is the part I cannot leave alone: the distance from the gate to the water is short. I hope whoever lives with this looks up some evening, finds the water sitting in her own field, and feels how carefully the lines were drawn around what is hers.

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The husband who remembers the date

Close view of the pale field lines and the single blue spring

One woman buys it for herself the month the boxes are finally unpacked, when the rooms stop being a project and start being a house. Trusting in the Lord turned out to be a real verb thing, and this is the year she can see it from where she sits.

The other buyer is her husband, on the anniversary of the day the offer was accepted. He is not good with that kind of sentence out loud, and this is silent but very effective and better than words. He writes the date small on the back before he wraps it.

It hangs on the long wall above the sofa, the 60x80 cm framed size, often as the pair to a valley landscape.

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First year in the house

What arrives

170 gsm paper Matte uncoated as a print on its own, coated silk inside the frame. Printed to its edges, no shine under a living room lamp.
Black wood frame, 12 mm A flat square profile 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, matte, plexiglass front, no mat, the print running to the inner edge.
Three sizes 30x40, 45x60 and 60x80 cm, which is 12x16, 18x24 and 24x32 in. The largest holds the long wall above a sofa.
Giclee print The thin lines between the fields stay thin, and the small spring stays the only blue in the picture.

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Questions that come up in front of it

1.What does the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places mean?

In Psalm 16:6 the words come from the measuring out of land, the share marked and handed to a family. Readers have long taken the line as gratitude for a place that was given rather than won. The picture keeps that open: some see a plot measured out, some see the water at the end of the track.

2.What is a goodly heritage in Psalm 16?

Heritage here is the portion passed on, what belongs to you because it was given, not because you bought it well. Some read it as the land itself, some read it as the Lord being the portion and the land only the sign of it. Both readings sit comfortably under this one.

3.What Bible verse is good for a family living room?

A living room tends to carry verses about dwelling and home, because that is the room where people sit together. Psalm 16:6 suits it because it names what a family was given without announcing anything. Guests read the fields and the lines as a map first, and ask about the verse after.

4.Is this a good gift for a first year in a new home?

It was made for that year. It is often given on the anniversary of the day an offer was finally accepted, or bought by a woman for herself the month the boxes are gone. If you want something to say with it, the date of the keys, written small on the back, does the work.

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