We watch ourselves from the cradle, performing into decay. The artist must really deepen the game to be any good at all, so that he can make life a bit more exciting. Douglas Adams wrote four science fiction novels, the first being The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. They tell the story of four time travellers who hitchhike across the universe from the Big Bang to its destruction. The answers it comes up with are meaningless.
Man is a useless passion.
Ultimately, if you rule out any intelligent and creative mind behind this amazing universe, you are left with no alternative. Peter Kreeft, in his very thoughtful book Making Sense Out of Suffering, sums up the two options we face very well. Look at anything. I'm looking now at a late spring snowstorm. A surprise, a gift.