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Pop Zen manifesto

Honna, Keikichi

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2000, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.

I am an artist, do not forget it. My interests in mathematical sciences 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 meanings always contain certain amount of ambiguity, uncertainty, and undecidability. Those fuzzy boundaries of words depends on each individual's experiences, as such each word has brought 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, a Pop Zen monk, stick to rationality and logic to the bone. In other word, 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 enough, this kind of dilemma (ambiguity, uncertainty, and undecidability) can be found in the history of modern physics and mathematics. Then, my work, asvisual analogy and punning, can be my own accelerator, in which I observe the effects of collision of different things, concepts, and images.

(This thesis is available in the translation to Code 128 Bar Code. Please contact me at killthebuddha2@hotmail.com)

Richard Harned (Advisor)
Ruth King (Committee Member)
Ken Rinaldo (Committee Member)
19 p.

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  • Honna, K. (2000). Pop Zen manifesto [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1327601728

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Honna, Keikichi. Pop Zen manifesto. 2000. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1327601728.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Honna, Keikichi. "Pop Zen manifesto." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1327601728

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)