"[...] Definition. When any given bodies of the same or different magnitude are compelled by other bodies to remain in contact, or if they be moved at the same or different rates of speed, so that their mutual movements should preserve among themselves a certain fixed relation, we say that such bodies are in union, and that together they compose one body or individual, which is distinguished from other bodies by this fact of union [...]
( Spinoza, Ethics)

DENOUEMENT, video in loop, 2004

Life goes on, with our common sounds of traffic and building sites. We build, we construct, we destroy, and we rebuild. It's a never ending back and forward motion of doing and undoing, of hard working and serious life. Meanwhile, my hands knot and unknot a fine chain. Even though this work might recall knitting or needlework, or even saying prayers on a rosary, it is only an appearance as the doing and undoing is endless, like the apparent uselessness of living.