OTHER LINKS
As long as we get involved in
the hypertext, there are many links that set up us in the space of the
hypertext. The most recurrent links are those ones related with the Japanese Zen.
Those links are very recognizable because all the representations are rock and sand
landscapes. All these images are dealing with the concept of “sand as a medium”,
a concept created by a French artist called Jean-Pierre Hébert.
(image taken from: http://128.111.9.106/online/plecture/hebert/im/hebert.jpg)
(images taken from:
http://hebert.kitp.ucsb.edu/sand/3rocks.jpg ;
http://hebert.kitp.ucsb.edu/sand/finemb.jpg ; http://imagina.ina.fr/Imagina/2000/Village/Selections/Finale/942817269/imagina1s.jpg)
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More images in: http://dam.org/dox/2328.xkV8Z.H.1.De.php
Those images reminded me to
the Zen Gardens in Japan. Here is an
explanation of what are them.
If we continue with the work,
we realise that in the links there is also shown the importance of the Biblical
Myth of Sisyphus
MYTH
OF SISYPHUS
The
story tells us that Sisyphus was condemned by the Gods to roll a rock to the
top of a hill. The problem was that every time Sisyphus reached the top of the
hill, the rock would roll down once again and Sisyphus would have to walk down
and start rolling it up once more. The Gods had decided this cycle was to last
for eternity. This is why, even today, Sisyphus is somewhere in hell rolling
that rock up a hill for the billionth time. So much sacrifice in vain… so much
sweat and sacrifice for an objective that will never be fulfilled. It is
undoubtedly, the cruellest punishment imaginable. A life whose objective and is
unachievable and whose very reason for existing is, frankly, unexplainable.
This sounds eerily similar to our own lives. In the end, it has all been
worthless. Sisyphus is the reflection we see each time that we look in the
mirror.
(taken from http://www.uoguelph.ca/~imoya/Sisyphus.html
- last viewed, re-written and revised 13th of January at 20.50 pm)
(image taken from: http://planetpooks.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/sisyphus.jpg)
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