Do you think you are real? Am I real? What is reality?

My body of work is an installation of fifteen relief prints, with multimedia elements, about the overlap between reality and imagination. For me, as with other people, reality is something that brings extreme stress and anxiety, so for this, we rely on our imagination to cope with this reality. Every time I felt anxious, depressed, or stressed about almost anything that is happening to me, I retreat into my imagination. Psychologists, Rubinstein and Lahad call this “Fantastic Reality Ability.” The images that I have created are representations of what goes on in my mind every day. This is shown by warping and distorting the human figure in different and unnatural ways. By removing body parts or making them not visible, I am able to create a sense of the unreal. Then, I connect the imagery in the prints to reality by using string and realistic eyes painted on the prints. The goal is to show my experience of how utilizing too much of my imagination to cope blurs into reality.