SCIART COLAB

「The Significance of  Significance」

These hammers, tirelessly engaged in their 
mechanical repetition, mirror the ceaseless march 
of human progress. Their frenzied strikes, futile 
and impotent, embody the inherent absurdity of 
existence, much like a spring-loaded nail forever 
eluding complete immersion into the wood. The 
purpose and significance of human actions remain 
shifting. Yet, we easily ensnare ourselves in this vain 
battle. 

This fixation is not born of reason but the primal 
human instinct for significance. It is as if we are 
programmed to pursue an unending quest, unable 
to extricate ourselves. However, perhaps the true 
wisdom lies in releasing such fixation. As Camus 
wrote in The Stranger, “On the solitary island 
remaining in the world, the only celebration is the 
surrender to the sea.”