What exactly is the point? No.1

The Orphan - from my new set of picture postcards. Did I mention the postcards? The postcards don't blink like this one does admittedly. Nor do the eyes roll around like on yesterday's Chimera. If you're going to read my Blog, watch out for tiny details.

I realise, probably, no one will actually read my blog - and that even if they do, they probably won't notice all the little details - like the Orphan's eyes. But I can't help myself. And the alternative is far worse...

Tiny creative details obsess me - they keep me up all night. They hold just the same vital fascination now as the spell they cast over me as a child. You see, in the grip of minutia fever, time dissolves and you feel utterly alive and engaged. It is the Grande Alchemy: tweaking, refining and boiling down to essence. It is the search for GolD. It must be the "Bliss" that Joseph Campbell said we must follow.

Fair enough, Joe. But hang on - isn't it all a bit self-serving? I mean, what exactly is the point?

Well, I have two answers...

The first springs from those darkly darkest hours:
There is no point. Your creativity has no value. Your efforts are utterly futile. Congratulations. You are an accomplished masturbator... etc. etc. I could go on. Very easily.

The alternative goes like this:
There's a postman I see often around town. He's the archetypal chirpy postie, filled with radiant goodwill and a cheery "Morning!" that makes you feel that he both knows you and likes you. That's quite a talent. You get the feeling he was created to be a postman.

Last night I read in the Somerset Standard, that a postman was killed by a car while out on his pushbike. So - now I'm worried that it was him - the nice postman - whose name I'm not sure of but might have been Paul Sutcliffe, like the guy in the article.

So anyway, the point is; if you really are a cheery postie, it's probably best to just get on and BE a cheery postie. It's a good thing to be known and remembered for. If you are an obsessive creative detail nut, then just BE an obsessive creative detail nut.... And - BE SEEN being it.

Hence the Blog.
And the Orphan's eyes...