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Andre Jute

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Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« on: November 01, 2014, 10:15:26 pm »
Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?

At
http://www.sketching.cc/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2283&p=20328#p20324
scroll down past the text to the first illustration "church wheel sm.jpg". It was drawn by Matthew Mattingly, who has featured in our forum before at
http://www.thorncycles.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=8559.msg57927#msg57927
and
http://www.thorncycles.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=7199.msg45817#msg45817
for turning his bike into a mobile painting studio. Of the sketch at
http://www.sketching.cc/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2283&p=20328#p20324
he says, "I was driving by and got a fleeting glimpse of this minister entering the church door carrying a bicycle wheel, which seemed intriguing and possibly symbolic, although I'm not sure of what."

Who wants to help Matthew, tell him what it is symbolic of?

Slammin Sammy

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2014, 03:47:29 pm »
Nice sketches, Matthew!

And Andre, I'd say the priest is probably securing his bike by locking it up and releasing the front wheel, taking it with him into his workplace.

Perhaps some of his parishioners may not be as god-fearing and trustworthy as they seem??  ;) ???

Andre Jute

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2014, 06:08:59 pm »

Matthew thinks the priest is about to do a tube repair in the baptismal font...

jags

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2014, 06:45:26 pm »
sure isn't that what its for ;D ;D

triaesthete

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2014, 07:02:26 pm »

  flats in his belfry?

Andre Jute

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2014, 10:48:26 pm »
You guys are wicked.

triaesthete

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2014, 11:49:58 pm »


That would be a ecumechanical matter Bishop Andre.

John Saxby

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2014, 01:08:19 am »
This question has been bedevilling me for a while, Andre, if “bedevilling” is not out of place here. Nevertheless, thanks for your link to the sketching network – it offers a nice insight into a skill entirely beyond me, and for that reason one that I admire and appreciate in others. When we were in London in early October, we visited the Turner exhibit at the Tate Gallery, and the Constable ditto at the Victoria & Albert – magnificent and moving, both of them, often with several sketches accompanying each finished painting. Their skyscapes were especially compelling, and put me in mind of the Cloud Appreciations Society [http://couldappreciationsociety.org] – an old friend and cycling buddy in Amsterdam, who’s also a sketcher, uses that as a source of ideas for his work.  One can understand why, looking at the photo below.

And oh yes, the priest with the wheel? Almost certainly, it’s the missing bit he needs to complete The Cycle of Life. Or perhaps that's too grand, and it’s simply that his parish, like so many these days, is a bit skint, so he runs a wheelbuilding shop as a revenue spinner (pun intended, with your indulgence.) Or perhaps he’s a sketcher too, and needs the wheel as a model for the sketch of the flag of India that he’s finishing. Or maybe the at-first-blush explanation holds true after all, and he just needs a safe place to stow his front wheel. (Not a font wheel, mind.)

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2014, 08:59:08 am »
Hey, I have one very much like that - Sunset over Oodnadatta


Andre Jute

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2014, 01:39:41 pm »
Good heavens, those remind me of sunsets over the Karoo, with all the red dust in the air.

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Re: Why is the priest carrying a bicycle wheel into the temple?
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2014, 03:43:57 pm »
Wow those photos are stunning.


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