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Sisyphus Industries homepage
Las Furias (2014) at the Prado
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Sisyphus Industries, founded by Micah Roth; the company produces a robot that rakes automatically and perpetually the pebbles in a Zen garden. Its new table-top creator is also remarkable.

It's worth noting that the company's logo plays on the perpetuality of Sisyphean toil, a mobius strip with a ball near one summit; no human is depicted in the graphic adaptation of the myth.

A man in glasses wearing a grey shirt works on a wooden table, with a zen garden sand pattern visible in the foreground

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OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.