Last Friday after work, I took advantage of the still-daylight-hours of eary October to draw downtown, another larger drawing. I have drawn this scene before a couple of times, but it’s an interesting building on E Street with an even more interesting metal-pipe-thing in front of it. I sat outside the Natsoulas Gallery, and it was a gorgeous evening, with many people out and about. Occasionally people would come up to me and say, “ooh, that’s nice”, which is always nice. One guy loved that I was drawing the pipes. I told him I’ve drawn lots of them. They’re like art sculptures all over the town, he said, and I agree. I’ve always though they kind of look like robotic animals, this perhaps being some sort of camel. “Backflow Preventers,” I told him they are called, as I was told a while back by someone who works with them. Very technical beasts they are too. What do they do, he asked. Prevent backflows, I suppose, whatever that means. I don’t really know. I prefer to be ignorant of what they actually do, it’s like magic, it just has its function in the world. But I do love how they look.
petescully 
Aww, I was going to tell you what backflow preventers do, but since you said you don’t want to know, I’ll keep it to myself….:) Lovely sketch, as always. I often make an “oooooooooooh” sound when looking at your sketches. You can pretend I’m a ghostie that haunts your blog.
cheers Seana! Yes, ignorance is bliss.
Pete, you are amazing! How do you find the time to sketch all this with all the stuff you do during the day at school? I am looking forward to the upcoming sketch crawl tomorrow. I might be a little late so I hope I can find you guys. Oh, and I got the reference! It’s Phillip K. Dick, I remember reading that book when I was obsessed with the movie Blade Runner :)
Cheers Leah, hope to see you at the sketchcrawl!
This is my first visit to your blog and I really am enjoying your work. Nice perspective.