I love drawing parallels between my art work and real life. Today i was looking out of the raindrop covered window on the top of my route 337 double decker bus. I noticed a train speeding down the wet tracks coming out from the bridge the bus was going over, and the spectacular array of bright sparks that eminated from what looked like the wheels. When i got home i found out what was going on (see quote below)
"The London Underground uses a 4-rail system in which the electrical return is isolated from the running rails (the rails used by the trains wheels). Sparks are quite normal and occur when the electric power collection "shoes" of a train that is motoring (i.e. drawing power) reaches the end of a section of electric power rail."
It was interesting to think how often these miniature firework-like explosions must occur, and even more interesting to realise that they had been represented without intention in a piece of work i did last year:
Pretty nice connection in my opinion!
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