Coloring the Void

"To work and create 'for nothing,' to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day… this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on the one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors." Camus, from "Ephemeral Creation" in The Myth of Sisyphus