Plate of Shrimp

Ah, yes, another hydrant. One of the earliest ones. Just a pencil sketch of the hydrant you can see from the porch at the summer place. The same one as in that painting I posted a while back. And about a month back, while walking to the train, I came across this:

I grabbed my little traveling camera from my bag and took a couple shots. A worker came running up to me, telling me it was nothing interesting, they had shut off the water. I tried to tell him it was interesting to me, but finally just said "It looks cool." He gave me every indication that he thought I was a kook without actually speaking and walked away. Then I got this shot:

Fans of Repo Man will recall the plate of shrimp phenomenon. And really, this whole post was just to bring up Repo Man, which I loved but probably haven't seen since the 80s. I think I'll add it to my netflix queue.

Toulouse 2008.
I liked the red against the grassy background,and the bit of moss growing on the top.

First

This is a detail of a larger painting. I'm not sure when or how the fire hydrant theme started, but this may have been the first one. This is from 2002 or 2003.

Spiral

Another view of a fire hydrant. The snail caught my eye against the red of the hydrant, and it was only later that I realized there were two spirals in the image, man-made and natural, fractal and linear.

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Unexpected Beauty

All photography is editing. This is a close-up shot of part of a fire hydrant on the cape.