Cutting Grass
2013
Website, video
Website, video
Cutting Grass is a place on the internet where Link is relentlessly cutting grass to find always more rubies (currency of the game "Zelda: a link to the past"). Although the counter is at its maximum, Link still continues its activity in real-time, the means - raise money - becoming the end itself.
In the manner of Albert Camus' happy Sisyphus, he finds happiness in accomplishing the task he undertakes, and not in the meaning of this task: "This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. [...] The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."
Created for "Mon3y as an 3rrror".
In the manner of Albert Camus' happy Sisyphus, he finds happiness in accomplishing the task he undertakes, and not in the meaning of this task: "This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. [...] The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."
Created for "Mon3y as an 3rrror".
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