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The Sword and the Sheath
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Written & Directed by Jerry White Jr.
The Sword and the Sheath
2008
USA
I am a temple. I am a pilgrim.
Blown Sugar Figure · In a Single Breath
A five-second sugar sculpting captures five thousand years of sweetness.
Plain Person
An exploration of the individual as a vessel of limitless potential.
Tide – Clear
A metaphor of clarity hidden beneath surface moisture.
Tide – Turbid
A visual metaphor of something flawed yet hard to discard.
Integrity and Self-Discipline Series II
A satirical series revealing the gap between glamour and inner fracture.
Integrity and Self-Discipline Series I
A satirical series exposing the gap between appearances and true integrity.
The Dilemma of the “Other”
A surreal series on the individual’s dislocation within the collective.
Endless Rain
A looping rain-scape depicts an individual trapped in endless solitude.
Make it
When does one truly reach the shore?
Zhuan Seasons
Interwoven Solar Term colors form a continuous cycle that revitalizes seal script.
Zhuan Seasons
A card-poster series that shapes seal script with seasonal colors, making time visible and tangible.
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Gravitation
A contemporary ballet dance piece about farewell, expressing love and separation through shifting physical contact and gravity-like emotion.
3:42
Cactus and Rose
A deep friendship forms with the cactus, and together they flourish within their environment.
4:02
Run Into the Blue
What it still means to sense, to know, to be present.
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The Absurd Contract
Order persists unchallenged.
2:16
PUT YOUR WARRIOR MASK ON AND RUN
It does not resolve it, justify it, or elevate it.
9:56
ARE YOU TRYING TO COMMUNICATE
Between bodies, language, intention, and the camera itself.
4:56
Night Will Never Come
Soon, however, his freedom is put at risk.
2:26
To Mahsa
I had to do what I could with my work to bring attention to these facts.
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RUINS
What remains is the sensation of having searched for something that was never there.
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Realistic Work 2
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Distant places3 - Dreams and desire
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Distant places2 - Dreams and desire
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A discussion about order3 - The collision of beauty and chaos
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A discussion about order2 - The collision of beauty and chaos
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A discussion about order1 - The collision of beauty and chaos
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Remember Me
A cyclical relationship between the living and the remembered
23:57
LAND FORMS
Were they once extraterrestrial astronauts? Have they really fallen onto Earth?
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The Little Toe
A back street that exists in a narrow gap, like the space between the little toe and a shoe.
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UNTITLED 3
He stages a flamboyant act of self-undoing to reach into the depths of philosophy,
7:44
Tape
Forced to run as a tiny component within the vast social machine.
16:47
Unfinished 2
A deconstruction of the canonical concept of “Eden.
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No Answer Needed
No answer needed...
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Śūnyatā
Appearance, Interdependent Arising, Dissolving Shadow, and Śūnyatā.
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Insert Coin to Play
Are we playing, or are we being played?
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Three-dimensional Attractor
A Study on Strange Attractors
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