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The title of the poster: "Sissy-phus" is a play on the word Sisyphus. This is to depict the nature of timidness, being scared of death and wanting to cheat it that led him to his eternal damnation of rolling a boulder up the hill in terms of modern days and work culture, it can be interpreted as not having the courage to getting out of the rat race and doing what truly brings you happiness.
The poster depicts Sisyphus as a modern day working man in his office formalwear. He has been drawn in gray scale so as to depict lifelessness, boredom and monotony of everyday life. The background of the poster has two main components that represent the day and night.Thestop part having the sun in half and the bottom showing night time with speckles that is the night sky in a way. The crown is to signify the fact that Sisyphus was previously a king and the crown is also in a way a reflection of the hill and the circles around is the boulder that Sisyphus was condemned to push up the hill and see roll down.
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Final Poster
The myth of Sisyphus is a story from Greek Philosophy where the tyrant Sisyphus, a person of power abused his responsibilities and escaped death twice, which made the gods very angry at him and hence sentenced him to complete a task of pushing a boulder to the top of a mountain. He would do so but as he reached the top, the boulder would roll down to the bottom again, hence leaving his task unfinished and never ending.
Sisyphus is stuck rolling a boulder for eternity.
This project entailed drawing parallels from the myth of Sisyphus and the lives of working class individuals in today's day and age. We were asked to explain the similarities and how the same philosophy translates into our everyday life along with the concept of absurdism and how it plays into the trope of never ending and repeating tasks without improvement or progress
