Chapter One: Damage
Sunday, June 08, 2008
When I was young, I went through this odd phase.
I had a strange obsession with burning various things and destroying my Matchbox cars. Lego was not exempt from this potential damage. I often considered how best I could represent a car crash. Possibly by drilling a hole in the Lego car windscreen, inking the edges with a red Texta and then putting the attaching column of the Lego man’s head through the hole. After that, I would perhaps re-attach the Lego man’s head to his body column via the hole in the windscreen.
Now, this kind of behaviour would most definitely now, if not even then, be considered borderline psychotic. But to me then, and especially now, it expresses an interest in … well … the facts. It’s unreasonable and ridiculous to suggest to a growing child that people never die, that accidents never happen, that life is, in fact, a sequence of well ordered events, when contrary evidence is all around.
Writing this now, I wonder if I ever really got out of that mentality. Being older, I know for certain now that property has a definite value. By value, I mean that property means something important to someone and therefore should not be burned, damaged or made into a pretend accident. I also now realise that there is a value attributed to property which has something very important to do with money. So anyway, I got older. I entered my late teens - that brilliant and potentially dangerous time when you throw off the constraints that have been imposed upon you and start to become your own person. The sad thing is, a lot of people don’t. Not even after they’ve outgrown their late teens. But if you’ve ever found yourself listening properly to pure rock ‘n’ roll, you know what I’m talking about.My point, at least in this first post, is to draw attention to why you started doing whatever it is you do. Why you keep doing it. Why you would be prepared to risk everything to continue doing it.
And that’s about all.
And if you don’t know why you’re doing what you're doing right now, I can’t really help that, nor would I care to. All I can do is relate my ideas and experiences and hope that it inspires you to do something similar.So until the next time … Stay Tuned.