Mary Sat at His Feet
Luke 10:39Study and small group
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Somebody sat down while the plates waited
Late in the evening, when the kitchen is finally dark, the lamp beside the chair is the only light left on. From there it sits at eye level, near enough to read and far enough to take in all at once.
Two women, no faces. One is seated low on the floor, turned toward whoever is speaking, her back long and easy. The other stands a step inside the doorway with her hands still full, and the light behind her lays a pale line along the boards between them. Nobody is being corrected. What it gives you is a chair that stays a chair, and not one more place where you are needed.
People say different things about it. One friend sees a woman who sat down when there was work to do. Another sees the sister arriving with her hands full, still in motion. Somebody else sees only the leaning, someone bent forward a little to catch what is being said. No one has ever asked for an explanation, and the corner it hangs in says what kind of house this is: quiet on purpose, and not by accident.
I keep looking at the step she has not finished taking
The light does not come from the window. It gathers on the seated one, low and close to the floor, and I keep thinking she is the source of it rather than the room. Then it reaches the doorway, where the other woman stands one step inside, her hands not yet empty. That step is what I look at most. The arrival that has not finished arriving.
There is a small distance between them, two floorboards at most, and nothing in the scene closes it. I like that it stays open. What I hope is plain: that whoever lives with this finds her own chair beneath it, and that on some ordinary morning she stays in it longer than she meant to, with nothing at all going wrong.
The one who feeds everybody, and the ones she feeds
One woman buys it for herself, usually in January, the week she claims a corner of the house. She has a chair now, a lamp, and a scripture for the day to rest on and pray on. She has served in every room of this house and has never once been the one sitting down.
The other buyer is a group of women choosing something for the one who hosts them. She cooks for them every Thursday, and it is as much a support group as a Bible study, they have found. She keeps saying she wants nothing, that the house has enough stuff in it already, and this is the one thing that is not stuff.
It hangs left of the bookcase, above the reading chair, the largest size framed when it is the middle of a three-piece study wall.
What arrives at the door
- 170 gsm matte paper Print only. An unframed sheet, uncoated and matte, printed to its edges, with no shine under a lamp.
- Black wood frame, 12 mm 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 cm / 12x16 in, 45x60 cm / 18x24 in, 60x80 cm / 24x32 in. The largest suits the wall above a reading chair.
- Giclee print The scene runs to the edge of the sheet, and to the inner edge of the frame, so nothing of the doorway is cropped away.
What people ask before they choose
1.What verse should I hang in my prayer corner?
2.What does Mary sat at his feet mean in Luke 10?
3.What art suits a small home study wall?
4.Will it look like church shop decor?
The chair is ready before the year is
Luke 10:39, in three sizes, framed in black wood or as a sheet on its own, for the corner you are about to claim.
