Brief Glimmer of Understanding

In the course of work, I'll sometimes enlarge a digital image until I can see each pixel, to perfect the gradation between colors. I'll hone in on a spot that is barely bigger than a fingernail and tweak and tweak until I feel that it's just exactly right.

Then I'll zoom out to see the image at its normal perspective and realize...all that painstaking subtlety didn't really change a thing.

That's what I'm doing right now...zooming out to my normal perspective.