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| 3/30/15 Platinum Carbon ink, Sailor zoom pen, watercolor, Caran d'Ache Museum colored pencils, Canson XL paper |
When I first started this series of power line sketches, it
was my way of paying respect to these old, once-dignified trees. The power
lines were merely the context and reason for the merciless butchering the trees
had received. The more sketches I do, however, the more interested I’ve become
in the utility wiring itself. I used to think it all looked the same, but in different
neighborhoods, the way it’s attached to the poles varies. With all the added
types of utilities over the years – fiber optics are the most recent addition, coming in fast and furious in our neck
of the woods – the wiring has become more and more complicated.
The poles and lines are as ugly as the trees are (or might
have been) beautiful, yet they still hold my fascination in a perverse kind of
way.
The men who work on those lines take their lives in their hands to bring us electricity. Every year, some of them die on the job.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy seeing the tangle of all the wires too. Good sketch!! At some point they will probably put much of it underground and the view will look so clean. lol
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