Gecelter, Jonathan P.2018-05-102018-05-102017Gecelter, Jonathan Percy (2017) Interpreting the manifest, confronting chaos, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/24448>https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24448A Masters dissertation, 2017The  physicist,  Albert  Einstein’s  startling  statement,  “There  are  only  two  ways  to  live  a   life,  one,  is  that  nothing  is  a  miracle,  and  the  other,  is  that  everything  is  a  miracle.”   prompted  a  series  of  questions  in  relation  to  my  own  questioning  as  to  the   miraculousness  of  life  itself  and  the  disconcerting  coexistence  of  uncertainty,  apparent   chaos  and  seeming  randomness  of  the  world  around  me.  Paradigms  of  the  mystical  and   the  scientific,  in  the  succeeding  chapters,  compete  and  coalesce  within  a  process  of   interpretation  in  an  attempt  to  investigate  the  structural  ambiguity  of  holding  both   views  simultaneously.           The  scope  of  my  investigation  has  focused  on  an  analytical  interplay  between  the   biblical  narratives  of  Babel  and  Abraham,  with  the  scientific  psychosocial  theory  of   Danah  Zohar’s  Quantum  Self.  These  seemingly  dramatically  different  paradigms  are  used   as  a  lens  to  analyze  the  complex  structure  of  a  series  of  random  or  miraculous  events  in   Alejandro  Gonzalez  Iñárritu’s  2006  film,  titled  Babel.           Ultimately,  the  insights  gained  from  these  texts  and  the  analysis  of  the  film  had  a   profound  effect  on  the  production  of  a  body  of  work,  which  also  engaged,  with  multiple   modes  of  translation  and  interpretation.  Significantly,  in  a  personal  attempt  to  engage   with  a  unified  field  of  meaning  a  criticality  emerged,  which  personally  empowered  me  to   challenge  yet  integrate  my  deep-­‐seated  Judaic  beliefs  with  a  contemporary  scientific   paradigm  profoundly  affecting  my  art  practice.          Online resource (134 leaves)enTranslating and interpretingPsycholinguisticsThesis