Belief in God amounted to a betrayal of reason, and Christians in particular are people who commit philosophical suicide. In his work One must imagine Sisyphus happy Radostin Sedevchev continues to examine such global topics as the boundaries of life and death, unique subjective concepts of the world and the way social self-determination of the individual is realized through the prism of time. Camus claims that despite the struggle, Sisyphus finds freedom and contentment when he accepts the futility of his task and the certainty of his fate – thus concluding that ‘one must imagine Sisyphus happy’. Camus and the Silence of God Before WWII, Camus viewed Christianity as absurd. Darryl’s excellent and path-breaking new book on ‘ Justice in Extreme Case s’ reminds me of this image. The title of the artwork is in reference to Albert Camus’ philosophical essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’, in which the author describes man’s absurd and futile search for meaning, comparing it to the Greek myth of Sisyphus, who was condemned to eternally repeat the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again. Conscious, but defiant, torn to his fate, yet taking comfort in the moment this is how Camus portrayed Sisyphus. The opposite experiences of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in life are so omnipresent that man as a creature of habit, is incapable of experiencing the one without the other. Camus is saying that WE should imagine Sisyphus happy, for the sake of our own emotional and psychological well. In contrast to the hardships, stands the beautiful, happy and content side of life, which is a perpetual part of experience as well and is represented by the softness of the cotton which surrounds the stone but is interrupted by the wire. This statement is prescriptive, not descriptive. As humanity bends its environment to its liking, the natural material stone can not stay in its natural form but has to adhere to a human-like shape. On one hand, existence is a never-ending struggle in an increasingly complex world that ironically man creates himself in order to find clarity and eternal truth. IMAGINE SISYPHUS HAPPY is a composition consisting of two opposing textures, which together represent the contrast of the human experience.
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