The Agony of Imbalance explores the amorphous saccades of order and disorder by virtue of polarity. In Taoist philosophy, the principle of polarity states that everything in existence has two sides like the dipoles of a magnet. These polarities emerge from the whole, and the disappearance of one side would destroy the whole of the system. Fundamental polarities maintain the waltzing symmetry of evolution through the imprinted sentience of conscious and unconscious rivers. The Taoist conception of yin and yang, or the sun and moon of ancient alchemy, exist as orbiting mirrors, spinning a singularity.

Pursuits of knowledge often isolate themselves in agonizing polarizations because they are blind to the agency of their counterpart. In a fury of myopia, we have created walls against water without discerning their existence. Therefore, I have begun weaving one bridge to unification: logic and imagination (the rational and irrational). This conversation is a surrealistic investigation of classic children’s games (imagination) juxtaposed with timeless formal attire in organized geometry (logic). Shot on black-and-white 35mm film, the interplay between the characters and their environments turns potential energy into kinetic with resonance and crescendo.

We must recognize our spotlighted vision, embrace both children of the snake, and transition in illumination to rescue the human psyche from the malaise of the dogmatic world.

We collapse because we can rise.