After Sewon Shin reformed the Hanol-gyo foundation, he resigned from all of his duties and returned to his art in order to introduce a new form of art called Trans-art.

Trans-Art is 'art' that transcends the conventional form of art: the Trans-artist attempts to express the 'enlightenment and awakening', which is beyond 'form', by using the multi-dimensional expression method that he acquired from his own experience of the 'enlightening and awakening' process.

Trans-Art part 1: [Optical Awakening]

Trans-Art Part 1 can be considered as an indirect experience of 'Spiritual Transcendence' by the 'visualization of Enlightenment and Awakening' in the form of Art.

In his major work, Part 1: the ‘Optical Awakening series', the artist attempts to express the 'Enlightenment and Awakening' which is beyond 'Form', by using the multi-dimensional expression method that he acquired from his own experience of the 'enlightening and awakening' process.

The artist shows the dynamic process of the transformation in the creation of art with multi-dimensional perspectives that he acquired from his spiritual experience.

After the unexpected passing of his father, he experienced absolute despair. The inability to extricate himself from an inescapable quagmire of his religious destiny forced him to suffer a serious mental breakdown, leading him to commit suicide which seemed to be the only choice and inevitable to him then. However, at the critical moment of self-extinction, he experienced 'Gyun-Sung: a glimpse of enlightening and the following determination of unconditional surrender to the suchness of Life', which was the beginning of the irreversible process of the ‘gradual awakening in his consciousness’.

In Trans-Art part 1, he is expressing the process of 'Ego dis-identification' that he acquired from his suicidal experience, which resulted in a separation of the 'Ego-mind (involuntarily accumulated mental synapse and construct of mind-structure)' and 'Consciousness (True-Nature)', causing the initiation of a gradual awakening in his consciousness. ¹⁾

From the enlightening experiences, he came to realize that Art and Spirituality share one and the same nature, of showing the doorway into another dimension of consciousness where our true essence beyond 'form' is indwelling.

He is expressing a glimpse of 'enlightenment and awakening' which is 'beyond form' by using the 'form of Trans-art'.

The Part 1-1 [Optical Awakening series] can be perceived or experienced as an indirect experience of 'Spiritual Transcendence' the Preview of the Ego dis-identification which entails the separation of Mind (Ego) & Consciousness (True Nature) based on the artist’s own experience. ¹⁾

The Trans-artist shows the consecutive phases of the ‘Enlightenment and Awakening’ process which consists of: 'Awakening Dimensions', ‘Initiation of Awakening’, ‘Awakening True-Nature’, ‘Flash of Enlightening’, ‘Trans-Perceiving Ego’, ‘Dark-side of Ego’, ‘Trans-Quantum Physics of Mind’, ‘Trans-Perceiving Mental-Synapse’, ‘Self-Liberation’, ‘Breaking Free’, ‘Quest for Immortality’, and ‘Trans-Perception’.

It can be considered as an indirect experience of ‘Spiritual Transcendence’ by the ‘Visualization of Enlightenment and Awakening’ in the form of art.

The Part 1-2 [Optical Enlightening series] is the elaboration of 'Enlightening Art' (the first spiritual artwork the artist introduced as a leader of the Hanol foundation) in a fine Art form. By using the multi-dimensional expression method, the artist shows the different dimensional expression in the creation of art.

In the Part 1-3 [Universal Awakening series], by using the multi-dimensional method of expression, the artist reveals the revolutionary insight on the undisclosed nature of the Universe – Gravity of time and space, the mutual co-existence of 'Blackhole' and 'Whitehole', the essence of creational evolution, the infinite and eternal nature of the present, what was before and after the Big Bang and the beginning and end of the Universe as well as the quintessence transcendental-quantum physics.

In part 2, he integrates 'Taste into Art' and in part 3, he combines 'technology with Art' in order to express 'the beauty of enlightenment and awakening', which is beyond 'Form', by using 'Form of Trans-Art'. ²⁾

The Trans-Artist's spiritual art provided a basis for the 1st and 2nd reformation of the Korean traditional religion Hanol-gyo. His art played a major role in the development of Hanol-gyo, from a conventional religious system to a more liberal and decentralized structure of spirituality.

Furthermore, Trans-Art part 1 served as a driving force behind the Hanol spiritual and cultural movement of Art’, a new way of participating in Hanol philosophy and its spiritual teachings without religious obligation. The Hanol spiritual movement of art - the integration of art and spirituality, can be considered as a revolutionary approach to religious innovation and spiritual development in the face of an intellectual and spiritual singularity.