Until She Find It
Luke 15:8Hallway
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Somebody is still sweeping, long after the house is dark
From the far end of the corridor it reads as a map at night. Low blue hills, a road, small roofs, a whole village gone to bed.
Closer, one roof is gold. Warm light in a single window, the faint shape of someone moving inside, going over the same floor again for one small thing. The road bends twice and stops at that door. Living with it means that when the anxiety is worst at night, there is something on the wall already doing the looking for you.
People read it differently. One sees a village asleep and one roof still gold. Another sees the sweeping that goes on after everyone else has gone to bed. A friend follows the path winding through the dark and says it ends at one door, and that reading is true as well. It stays quiet enough to be a night scene to a guest, and only your family knows what it holds.
Everything on this map bends toward one lit door
I keep coming back to how small the village is from up here. A whole night laid out, roofs the size of a fingernail, and one of them holding light. The road does not run past that one. It bends, twice, and ends at the door. From this height you can see how far a person can go and still be inside the search.
I hope whoever lives with this map looks at the gold roof last, after the dark part, and finds the night less wide than it was. I hope she sees that the sweeping in that one window has not stopped, and that the distance between the far edge of the picture and that lit door is shorter than it looks.
The thing neither of you says out loud at small group
One woman buys it for her own corridor. She passes that wall on the way to bed, and the time before sleep is when she prays. Nothing ceremonial, only faith in the power of her Lord's holy name. She wanted one picture in the house that says somebody is still looking, and that she never has to explain to anyone.
The other buys it for a friend in the same season. They sit in the same circle on Thursdays, which is as much a support group as a Bible study, and neither of them says his name out loud. This says it for her. It goes in the box with a card that names nothing, and the friend understands by the time it is on her wall.
It hangs in the hallway at eye height, often to the right of its pair, so the two run from setting out to being searched for.
What arrives, and what it feels like on the wall
- 170 gsm matte paper Print only: an uncoated sheet, printed to its edges, off white, no shine under a hallway light.
- 12 mm black wood frame Flat square profile, 22 mm deep, matte, plexiglass front, no mat, on 170 gsm coated silk paper.
- Three sizes 30x40, 45x60 and 60x80 cm. The 45x60 cm holds a corridor wall without crowding it.
- Giclee printing Deep blues that stay quiet at night, and one gold roof that does not go grey.
What people ask before it goes up
1.What is the parable of the lost coin about?
2.What verse do I pray for a prodigal child?
3.What pair of prints works in a hallway gallery?
4.Will a guest understand what it means?
The lamp is still on at the end of the hall
Pick the size that suits the wall you pass on your way to bed, framed in black wood or as a single sheet.
