Dragon Fly Dime Stop

Dragon Fly Dime Stop
From the Lost Drawings Series by Peter Bogdanov
Ink and pencil on Bristol board (2012)
Some drawings feel like dreams you’ve had before—fragmented, electric, and strangely familiar. “Dragon Fly Dime Stop” is one of them. Created in 2012, this surrealist sketch hovers between fantasy, memory, and inner-city folklore. It’s a visual riddle in ink and pencil—each line vibrating like the wings of the title’s insect hero.
A dragonfly—rendered with precision and a sense of movement just barely contained—flies through an abstracted space that hints at motion, time, and transformation. Scribbled forms suggest a dime, a stop sign, maybe even a bus terminal—a crossroad where the mechanical and the magical briefly intersect.
Though made years after Peter Bogdanov’s art school period, “Dragon Fly Dime Stop” was officially adopted into the Lost Drawings Series after the devastating 2024 hurricanes destroyed the artist’s Florida studio and personal archive. The original was lost—but a high-resolution scan remained, allowing it to take its rightful place alongside earlier works that explore the fleeting, the symbolic, and the beautifully strange.
This piece resonates with the series’ themes: impermanence, survival, and meaning found in motion. The dragonfly—long seen as a symbol of transformation—becomes both a messenger and a metaphor, a delicate reminder that not everything lost is gone.
To collect “Dragon Fly Dime Stop” is to hold a moment in flight—art born at a crossroads, recovered from a storm, and preserved for the journey ahead.