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This quote and my understanding " i always feel incomplete and try to grab everything so I can feel complete , for this I change my identity every time "
But I wanna know the highest meaning of this quote , whoever has read the camus deeply can answer it because i have only read "the stranger" .
And I've heard a lot about sisyphus.
The comment section is all open , come and engage .
I hope this question is alright. So here's the thing, I've read Musashi Miyamoto's book and I've read parts of Seneca, and those were pretty easy to understand. But all I got from the first bit of The Myth of Sisyphus was, don't kill yourself, it's dumb and there's no good reason. Like I could tell there was more but I just didn't get it. Am I dumb or is it really this large of a jump, secondly, yall got any tips to make this a bit easier?
Inspired by the quote:
“A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there” by the minimalist artist Carl Andre; as well as Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus.
A redditer was making a point of "art is dead" with various supporting quotes of artists and philosophers. I support that art is an act of the artist and cannot die.
Through the process of creating individual memes, based around an image of Sisyphus (matias del carmine, free digital image), I began to ask myself "When does a meme become art?". So I decided to organize the simple set of collages, that started as statements on impossible or repetitive tasks, into a portfolio and approach the subject more seriously as an artist.
Each meme has a source of inspiration, included in the description. There is a series of 7 within the entire Sisyphus body titled The Daily Grind; in which I made 1 a day focusing on the activities common through daily life.
Through the process of creating each one, it was then I came to the realization that it was inspiration and the will to create, to express something that which existed within the mind, that made art art. The act of creating was the art, not whether or not other people see it as art.
The series final collage and penultimate piece, titled: Eternal Happiness (The Absurd Life as an Artist) ; is the only meme collage not in the same Sisyphus background pushing the subject matter. It also is a piece of creative writing describing the perspective of an artist in the process of creating.
The final piece is an original creation in digital format; Minimalist Sisyphus (One must imagine an Artist Happy). This one is answers the question through the use of comparison. Some believe minimalism isn't Art. So, is something art when it's created and presented as art?
[My portfolio] (https://www.reddit.com/u/wanderingrockdesigns/s/BQQYqVqVKq) *best viewed when sorted by Old.
18 pieces; 17 digital collages (16 in the same meme format and a series of 7 The Daily Grind, and 1 collage of illustrations with an expressive writing for the description), and 1 Original Composition done in Digital Media, Minimalist Sisyphus (One must imagine an artist happy)
I have an antithesis piece planned as well, a physical creation of value. Though this whole process has been inspired by Camus and the rebellion, I see today is the same battle Minimalist and Pop artist fought, an acceptance of their expression, their creations.
Like it or not, isn't really the point of the presentation. It has been a realization of thought and a journey of inspiration and creativity. I hope you do feel something from it and that it inspires you to think, to write, to create something of your own and bring a part of yourself into the world.
Thank you to all those who have made posts, comments, up and down votes, here and on every part of reddit. Continue to explore and contribute to the world. Be bold, be true to yourself, and live passionately.
I’m all for simplicity in cover design (and also a theme like camus’ work published by vintage) but sometimes it’s nice to have something more. this is just a moc up but I do think it adds something. no front title works for me too, honnestly. cover design is in wierd place right now no doubt (and only about to get weirder) Whatever this is pushing for it.
I chose this because I don't always have everything mapped out, but I know what I want to stay away from. That clarity alone helps me make better decisions as I figure things out.
does anyone else get kinda creeped out by the absurd itself?
i've been thinking about this lately and what really gets me isnt just "life has no meaning"
its the fact that we are literally matter that somehow became conscious and is now asking for a reason for being here
like... somehow atoms and cells turned into something that can look around and think "why am i here? why is there anything at all?"
and the universe just... doesnt answer lol
thats the part i find so fucking strange. not even that there might be no meaning, but that we are the kind of creatures that NEED to ask for one
and then theres the whole something instead of nothing thing, which honestly makes my brain hurt
why is there a universe at all?? wouldnt nothing be the most normal outcome? no matter, no time, no consciousness, literally nothing. nobody there to even notice
but instead here we are, this weird little clump of matter, somehow conscious, somehow able to understand that its conscious, and somehow bothered by the fact that it exists
maybe thats what Camus means by the absurd, but when i actually think about it without turning it into a philosophy concept it feels almost creepy
like reality somehow produced something inside itself that can look back at reality and ask what the fuck its doing here
This Question targets people who are new in Philosophy and didn't know much about absurdism before reading the book. For me I didnd't really get the whole thing but in these last pages I started to understand his whole message in the book the death of the mother or the realitionship with marie all these things had a meaning this whole time and I only understood in these last pages. Anybody have similar experiences?
I saw a post about someone rereading Camus trying to better understand him and thought about how the first time I heard about him and read TMoS I felt like he was voicing ideas I had felt but never put to words. Not that it's a bad thing, having to go through material again, and perhaps it's been my personal experiences with the indifference of the world that made Camus feel so familiar, comforting even.
> “Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.”
I see pieces of Marcus Aurelius and early philosophy there with the directing mind. Made me think of: Explore the mind and different perspectives and you may find yourself there before you even arrived.
I still haven't listened or read all of Camus' work having only recently found out about him 6 months or so ago. I just finished The Plague, man I can't imagine reading it in 2020, and I'm waiting on The Stranger to become available on the Libby app.
Hope you like the meme. I have a whole series in r/Sisyphuscirclejerk of various, mostly food based topics, featuring Sisyphus pushing stuff up the hill.
Keep pushing that rock fellow rebel rollers.