Jeong explains his work as a simulcarum – an image or an effigy that represents or imitates something or someone and is largely regarded as distorted, inferior and an imperfect copy. This has now moved into the term of hyperreality – the confusion as to which an individual cannot determine what is real and what is fiction.

People often ask him why he paints hyperrealistically when you can just take a photograph of that thing with a camera. This is the wrong definition of hyperrealism and how mistaken they are – it is a artistic reflection of hyperreality (the experience). Because the paintings are so realistic, and you are confused whether you are looking at a photograph or a painting, you experience in that split second the hyperreality that is the basis for hyperrealism.