"I can say that my works are sculptures of a visual era. If we could bring to life the distorted imagery of our past experiences, like reflections from the convex mirrors of our youth, I believe that those ideas would look a lot like my self."

Yi skews the physical reality by disturbing the perception and perspective through distorted forms that remind us of images re-created for us by the media. His previous works were typically sculpted in perpendicular extension to elicit a sense of alienation and isolation, whereas his new endeavors of outstretched and flattened shapes, sturdily grounded by gravity, educe amiability and warmth. Attributable to the circle of family of Jangdokdae series, a part of a of family of three generation, Jangdockdae Father and Mother-colour (Lot 1302) is compressed in parallel form of a Korean traditional earthen jar Jangdokdae to deliberately impose a sense of endearing humanism. Such amity and intimacy is further accentuated as Yi employs an anamorphic perspective, playfully requesting the viewers to adjust their stance to configure the convex exaggeration of their facial features. The sculptures provoke a visual experience in space and time, where our eyes seem to navigate familiar objects and people only for the first time, and our predicated perception must freshly adjust. Challenging both the intellect and the senses with his repeated references to widescreen films and virtual reality, Yi's sculptures display a parallel universe where ocular reality and perceptual accords of conformity are absurdly bended. Yi's coveted works hold an innate consideration of the existing environment, and at the same time, emphasize the discovery of new interactive relationship between human and land, natural and artificial, illusion and reality.