Pop Zen Manifesto:
A Thesis by Keikichi Honna
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Dates: May something - something May
Hopkins Hall Gallery: Pop Zen Manifesto
My interest in mathematical science and being bilingual have
made me question the function of language. Even though recorded words
or written texts do not change their physical appearances; their meaning
always contains a certain amount of ambiguity, uncertainty, and
undecidability. Those fuzzy boundaries of words depend on each
individual's experiences, as such each word brings me images and
concepts which are uniquely my own.
Zen Buddhism focuses on irrationality and illogicality to achieve
integrity of existence and experience of reality. However, even though
one can achieve enlightenment, there is no vocabulary to describe it.
So, no one can tell if he or she really did it, but guess and belief...
I, as a Pop Zen monk, stick to rationality and logic to the bone. In
other words, I focus on humor, sarcasm, and irony, all of which reveal a
huge gap between letter and spirit. Thus, we have been experiencing
the limitation of human knowledge every day. Interestingly, this kind
of dilemma (ambiguity, uncertainty, and undecidability) can be found
in the history of modern physics and mathematics. Then, my work, as
visual analogy and pun, can be my own accelerator, in which I observe
the effects of collision of different things, concepts, and images.
This exhibition is sponsored by OSU Department of Art,
Department of Physics, the College of the Arts, the College
of Math and Physical Sciences, and Pop Zen Institute.