Serendipity


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[n. the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. C.18: coined by Horace Walpole, from the Persian fairytale The Three Princes of Serendip, in which the heroes possess this gift.] I wish I could draw. I attribute to artists ungodly and supernatural powers, and strongly suspect they all dabble in the black arts. Even as a child, my own skill with pencil and paintbrush was always considered to be ten degrees worse than incompetent. It has deteriorated since then. In an earlier age, my pathetic attempts at realism would have made me the father of cubism. Digital photography has given me the opportunity of at least pretending I can make a pretty picture. I don’t kid myself that it is anything more than a talent for occasionally pressing the right buttons on a photo-editing screen. With the help of Photoshop and PhotoPlus I have built up a scrapbook of pictures I wish I could have painted. But even these have usually been achieved more by chance than by skill. That doesn’t stop me signing them and claiming them as artwork.

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