Jeanette Winterson published "Imagination and Reality" in 1987.

Winterson is a British
novelist who was born on August 27, 1959, in Manchester, England. She was able to write her
first novel, "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit," in 1985, and eventually adapted it for television,
which made her novel debut successful due to numerous awards and nominations, including the
Costa First Novel Award (1985), the E.M. Forster Award (1990), and the British Academy
Television Award for Best Drama Series (1991). This essay discusses art, imagination, and
reality. Throughout the narrative, she finds ways to combine imagination and reality and show
how they complement one another. To be able to express in a creative way, one must first
realize their vision. Winterson analyzes the fictitious existence and the government-sanctioned
money culture. She says that artists cannot live in this manner since they work on their own time
and money cannot represent the value of art.

According to Winterson (1987), art is visionary rather than documentary since it helps an
individual to see things that they would not typically be able to perceive. Additionally, visionary
art honors humanity's profound spiritual insight and mystical experience. The inner journey of
the artist into the realms of collective vision, as well as their individual discoveries and
experiences, inspire their work. The vision is then used to inspire creativity and self-realization.
When finished, the work serves as an expression of the inner journey, a trigger for the observer
to have transformational experiences, and a kind of devotion and commitment to a higher level
of consciousness. Furthermore, imagination and reality are inextricably linked since one cannot
exist without the other. A literary artist observes and does not imagine, accepting things for what
they are. In any case, the visionary craftsman is the one who can see things from a different
angle, experiencing a dream inside a dream. The main argument of Winterson's "Imagination
and Reality" is that an individual makes creative fantasies a reality through handicraft. An artist's
work allows them to perceive things for what they are, regardless of their monetary value. To
strengthen her argument, she utilized the logos, which means convincing by reasoning. To
support this statement, the author briefly discussed how Yahweh builds a mud model of a man
and inhales on it to rejuvenate it. Lastly, she claimed that "To see outside of a dead vision is not
an optical illusion," emphasizing that resurrection of dreams that people no longer consider does
not suggest that they are not true.

In conclusion to this, Jeannette Winterson's "Imagination and Reality" expressed her opinion
that art may help us turn our fantasies into reality. She did it by deploying a number of rhetorical
methods and tactics to persuade the reader. The author's own experience, history, and
Shakespeare's Othello all contributed to this primary point. She also arranged the essay in a
certain style to help communicate her point. By the end of the article, it has been demonstrated
that reality is nothing more than a mental construct.

References:
"Jeanette Winterson." Literature, literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/jeanette-winterson.
"Jeanette Winterson - Awards & Nominations." Awards & Winners,
awardsandwinners.com/winner/?mid=/m/01qtz0.