“I didn’t mean it that way.”

“That’s not really what I was trying to say.”

When communicating with other people, situations like these sometimes arise.

I believe this happens because even when we use the very same word, each person may perceive and interpret it in subtly different ways.

This is because once “a word” enters a person, it continues to be cultivated and shaped within them.

That word is formed through various experiences, various things they have read, and various moments of self-reflection.

Even if our understandings of a word overlap by 99 percent, perhaps the nature of “language” is such that they can never coincide 100 percent.

And yet, words are something we can “see.”

Perhaps that is why we mistakenly believe that we share a clear and identical understanding of their meaning.

Words may be “visible,” but they are always wrapped in something invisible.

And precisely because the visible part is there, we may stop trying to see what lies beneath it.

Perhaps, from the very beginning, we need to recognize that this is simply the nature of “language”: that it is not something we can ever possess in exactly the same, unwavering form as one another.

If we can share this understanding and communicate with a little more openness and room for one another, perhaps we can create warmer exchanges—ones in which we are able to sense and understand what the other person is truly trying to convey.

In this work, I seek to express this idea visually by showing that even when a single word represents one color, there can be countless shades and nuances within that color.

Through this visual expression, I hope to make this idea easier to understand.