Unto the Other Side
Mark 4:35Living room
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One boat went out while the others stayed on the sand
From across the room it reads as water first. Then the shore comes up: a pale rim of sand, boats drawn up on it and left there, and out past them one small boat with the wake still behind it. The far side is a thin line near the top. You are looking down on all of it, the way you would from a hill above the lake.
What that gives the room is simple. On the evenings when the news is bad and everyone ends up on this sofa, there is a quiet sea over your heads and no hurry anywhere in it. Nothing in it promises the crossing will be easy. Only that the other side is where the boat is going, and it is already most of the way.
People see it differently. One counts the water behind the boat instead of the water ahead and calls it a crossing that is already halfway done. Another looks at the boats still on the sand and thinks about the one that went. A guest who does not go to church sees a calm sea from above and asks where you found it. Water so still you cannot tell what it did last night, someone said once, and that is the kind of room this has become.
Half the water is already behind them
I keep coming back to how much water is already behind the small boat. From up here you can measure it: a little more than half the crossing done, the shore it left gone soft at the edges, the far side still only a line. The other boats stay where they were pulled up on the sand. Nobody drew them wrong. They simply did not go out.
What holds me is the calm. From this height you cannot tell what the water did in the night, and I like that it does not say. I hope whoever lives with this looks up on a bad afternoon, finds the boat further along than she remembered, and lets the rest of the distance stay a distance for a while.
When a card is too small and the casserole is covered
One woman buys it for herself. She is in the middle of a year she did not choose, and she is still the one getting everyone into the car on a Sunday morning. The storm is strong and some weeks it seems that Jesus is sleeping, and she has learned by now that God is acting anyway. She wants something over the sofa that is not a slogan.
The other is the friend. The freezer is already full, the card felt too small, and she knows the house has enough things in it, that nobody there wants more stuff. So she sends the crossing instead and writes one line inside: the boat is further along than it looks from the shore.
It hangs above the sofa, the 60x80 cm going up to the right of the hillside map, the second half of a pair that reads left to right.
What arrives
- 170 gsm matte paper Uncoated, printed to its edges, no frame and no shine under an afternoon lamp.
- 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 cm, 45x60 cm and 60x80 cm. The largest one holds the wall above a sofa.
What people ask about this crossing
1.What verse is peace be still from?
2.What bible verse do you give someone going through a storm?
3.What two prints hang well together in a living room?
4.Will a picture about a storm feel heavy in the room where we relax?
The far shore stays where it is, and so does the boat
Three sizes, framed or as a sheet, with the largest made for the whole wall above a sofa.
