Am I hopelessly optimistic or incredibly stupid?
Neither.
To wit: (excerpted from "2004 Friends of St Bride conferencec...")
Which brings me around to the need to zoom in and inspect, to find out at least some of the details on a particular esoteric subject. This practice reminds us that a single object can follow a long, forked path backwards and forwards, that there are endless sources for inspiration, and that the possibilities of what we have to work with are exponentially greater than what we are presently working with.