The Simple Things in Life

Pencil – only a tool used for painting, drawing, or putting down notes in the margins. In anyone – yes, but not at the Getty Dalton. This 45-year-old resident of Bridgeport for 25 years turns ordinary pencils into miniature sculptures, without using a magnifying glass .





Dalton Getty works very slowly. He does not use any special tools: for he needed only a blade, a sewing needle and a very bright light. To protect their vision, the author works for one and half hours a day. One tiny sculpture may take several months, and the creation of the previously mentioned script in Dalton took 2,5 years. “When I tell people how long it takes me to create sculptures, they simply do not believe me, – says Getty. – My patience is simply amazing people, because nowadays everyone wants to be quicker, faster and faster.


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Moral of this story (only if you consider this a story):

A pencil can be considered one of the simplest elements in life.

We often neglect it, preferring to use pens or mechanical pencils or whatnot.

But something so simple can be so beautiful if we let it.
This Dalton Getty, he is a true believer in life. He appreciates the smallest details, because he knows those are the ones that can change the world.

He successfully developed an art in its own form.

If only all of us acted like he did...

But then, if we did, there wouldn't be one single dull person in the world.

Everyone would be equal, and we wouldn't be able to compare, to excel others and ourselves.

By then, we will fell quite alone, because nobody would appreciate what we were trying to do, because everyone would be too busy developing their own art.

That's a lot to consider now, isn't it? (:

Yours with a cherry on top,

Qi Cheng