Fire Sprinkler Thingamaging

I had an art professor in college who was terrible. But one project she had us do was drawings of water pipes and etchings of manhole covers. She was interested in the ways people control water. I have to admit, the project stuck with me, and I continue to be fascinated with pipes and plumbing systems. This fire sprinkler system is in the theater building at Long Island University in downtown Brooklyn.

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

This one at the corner of the LIU campus on Flatbush Ave. and Fleet St., in Downtown Brooklyn.

Gowanus Water Tower

Water tower near Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Rebecca and Jacqueline

I've been back to figure drawing for the first time in, like, two years. My usual drawing studio, Minerva Durham's Spring Street Studio, which has relocated to Broome St. and is now known as Minerva's Studio. It was good to get back to doing this sort of work.

Jacqueline:

Rebecca:

Concrete Scraper

This machine is apparently a concrete floor scraper. For when you need to scrape a concrete floor. Outside the Empire Stores development in DUMBO.

Test Header

This fixture is called a test header. It's used to test the water flow in a building's fire sprinkler system. This one is located on the back of a Home Depot in Gowanus.