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.)
