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Research Notes

How Images
Become Reality

 

A map of ongoing inquiry into perception, memory, and the construction of visual reality.

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Central Question

What are we really looking at?

 

My work treats images not as fixed objects, but as phenomena generated continuously through the act of looking, memory, medium, body, and technology. Each series tests this premise from a different angle — examining the conditions under which images cohere, and the moments when they fracture.

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Practice Map

Each series investigates the same question from a different angle. The centre is not a synthesis — it is the open problem.

03

Series — Relationships

Images

Perception・Body

Images that appear, disappear, and transform depending on the viewer's angle. The image is not a fixed object — it rises from the encounter between the body and the viewing position.

Display

Screen Reality・Materiality

AI-generated and digital images translated onto physical supports. The work interrogates the boundary between the reality that exists inside the screen and the reality that emerges on the material surface.

Lost Idea / PhaseⅡ

Information・Overwriting・Confusion

Working through magazines, glass, AI generation, and glitch, the series addresses perceptual confusion in an era of constant overwriting — and the impossibility of preserving the image.

Flashback

Memory・Light・Transformation

Beginning from the transformation of daily light and personal memory, this series explores how images alter over time, taking on a different sense of reality as they pass through the body and recede into the past.

Floral Prompt

Desire・Generation

The site where memory, desire, and aesthetic sensibility are externalised through the AI image-generation process. The prompt itself becomes a portrait of the artist's inner image world.

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Medium as Apparatus

Lenticular

 

A physical device that makes the viewer's position change reality — not metaphor, but mechanism.

AI

 

Not a tool for making images, but a site where memory, desire, and aesthetic sensibility are externalised.

Acrylic / UV print

 

A support that grants digital images thickness, reflection, and material presence.

Video

 

The form that shows how an image continues to transform through time.

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Keywords

This page is a map of an ongoing inquiry.
Rather than presenting a conclusion, it records the questions I continue to explore through my work, and will be updated gradually over time.
For enquiries, please use the Contact page.


Last updated 2026.

Updates on works and exhibitions.

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