Useful objects are kept up by somebody nobody thanks.
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500gsm · 100% cotton · Hahnemühle Photo Rag · Archival pigment inks · 6 × 18 cm · Matte finish.
Lighthouses series · 8 of 20 different sets.
Catalogue Nº 036 of 100.
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The plumber who keeps your mother's house warm in winter. The friend who reminds you of every birthday in the family. The librarian who has been there longer than anyone on staff and who knows where things are without having to look. None of them get publicly thanked. All of them keep something going. The work is the kind that is only noticed when it stops, and rarely even then.
The Kermorvan light has been on for longer than anyone alive remembers. The keepers are gone now. The light is automatic. Once a year somebody comes along the stone causeway, opens the door, and changes a bulb. Boats coming in at night know which corner of the coast they are off by it. The stonemasons who put it up did not put their names on the door.
A natural fit for The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, Stoner by John Williams, or any book about quiet work nobody expects to be thanked for.
A lighthouse is the last building on the side of the planet that still takes its job seriously. There is a structure, there is a lamp at the top, the lamp turns through the night, and somewhere out at sea a small boat takes a slightly different decision because of it. The whole arrangement was perfected a hundred and fifty years ago and nobody has thought of a better one. Most of the world has stopped paying attention. The lighthouses have not.
