Tension Experiments: Transcendent Zen Series

This series begins with a rethinking of Zen. In today’s Eastern context, Zen has become sloganized and decorative, a cliché spoken by all; in the West, its limited reception often remains on the surface. Thus it has lost its tie to thought, and its power to reach the mind. Transcendent Zen seeks to free Zen from the rigid images of stillness, detachment, and emptiness, and to place it in a state of energy and eruption. Circles clash with light, ink collides with color, producing fields of tension that defy expectation. In this “transcendent” state, Zen regains its generative force. Only such transcendence may approach the truth of Zen.