Reconsidering Sisyphus
1993-4 Granite and steel, 8.5'h x16'w x6'd
Commissioned by the NJ
State Council on the Arts - Arts Inclusion Program and installed
at the NJ State College in Jersey City. On one level the work is
presented as a self-portrait suggesting the artist's plight is similar
to that the of the mythological Sisyphus - that of the perpetual
task of "pushing stones up a mountain". On a more serious
level the sculpture references the French surrealist writer Albert
Camus's famous essay The Myth of Sisyphus
which examines. among other things, the concept of work.
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