That’s how the folks at pop-culture site Pitchfork Media are describing it. Have a look for yourself:
The imagery for the cover of the band’s new album No Line on the Horizon may in fact look familiar to you. The photograph is by the incomparable Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Sugimoto is revered as one of the most astonishing visual artists of our day, working not just with photographs but also with moving images and mixed media. He’s also an architect.
His work appeared as a visual counterpart to Reginald A. Ray’s piece, “The Three Lineages,” in the Winter 2005 issue of Buddhadharma. (That piece is available to be read in the online Buddhadharma archives, here.)
How lovely for U2 to choose Sugimoto’s work for their cover — that means people all over the planet will be exposed to it!
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This is somewhat related to Rev. Danny Fisher’s post and my follow-up. Notice that the “Zen” here is an adjective (it’s preceded by the adverb “very”), which suggests that we’re looking at the pop-culture connotation as used by the inexorable mainstream media. At least in that case, I reckon the cover is very “Zen”…
Well said, Arunlikhati.
Very Zen/not very Zen, just not the Zen I’m in.
No. Very…Spinal Tap.