The relationship between reality and imagination is bilateral. 
This is because as the imagination moves into reality, the objects or situations we see or feel are reflected differently from the original as they enter our minds through the process of recognition. The point here is "conversion." "Transformation" inevitably occurs in the process of moving from the imaginative world into reality and vice versa. This change happens both inside and outside. I name and shape this two-way change "In and Out." 

* Inside to Outside

When we think of something, we often shape it in the form of an image in our heads. This tendency allows the act of “thought” to be expressed in images such as the pictures in speech balloons used by various media, such as cartoons. When a desire arises, an object or action that can satisfy that desire is drawn in our heads.  If we have a goal of what we want to become or what we want to achieve, it is the procedure of our actions toward that goal that we first portray in our heads. However, as always in our lives, when we try to achieve what we have hoped for or thought about in reality, it is always not completely achieved but always has a difference. I think of "purity" and "changed consequences." 

To go into more detail, it is accurate to say that the "image" in our heads before we do "act" is not fully realized, but rather a free imagination that extends in various ways that cannot be described. This is why it is impossible to explain and understand the dreams and delusions that one has with accurately matched images. It is a pure "thought" that various needs and possibilities coexist without being impinged upon from the outside. As the thought comes out in reality, it meets increasingly unique results.

* Outside to Inside

People have different perspectives. This can be seen from the same situation or object appearing in each individual mind differently. In this relationship, while the existence of reality harbors purity, it can be seen that "transition" occurs as it enters the world of the mind. Just as you open your imagination to your heart's content while reading a novel and express various interpretations while looking at the same artwork, the transition from outside to inside can also change in multiple ways. [The outside becomes the material from which the inside creates, processes, or transforms images, thought, dreams, etc.]

An important factor that distinguishes between these two aspects of change in my work is "canvas." As mentioned earlier, it is said that human thoughts are mainly shaped in the form of images. The world in the mind implies purity, and it is not formal and has various shapes. The indescribable paintings on the surface of the canvas represent this pure and indescribable world of imagery. But as it escapes from the two-dimensional surface and transits into the three-dimensional, the painting on the canvas gradually loses its purity and forms a particular shape. Conversely, when the three-dimensional shape comes into contact with the canvas and transits into two dimensions, the fixed shape gradually becomes ambiguous and then transforms into an abstract painting. These two types of "change"  are expressed through the interaction of two and three dimensions.