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For the purpose of presenting a complete creative process, this thesis includes multi-dimensional creative materials and is mainly presented using simple language and symbolic description. This work is a discussion of my personal creative process. Through self-assessment and analysis, this discussion follows the pattern of the order of growth of living things to explain the origins of my creations, the creative process and their presentation. Following this arrangement, I have divided this discussion into four parts, to which I have added an explanation of my personal creation, as follows:
I. Original flora: Based on my personal characteristics and background, I have traced and probed into the prototypes of my personal creations, as well as the focus of my interest. From these prototypes, I created a central idea with which I discussed my creative attitude and the important elements of my work.
II. Growth: This chapter deals with my personal creative qualities, relating them to daily living, from which I draw the nutrients needed for artistic creation. Adopting the attitude of a “collector,” I picked up all kinds of tangible and intangible materials as I built up my creative energy.
III. Attached-growth process: From the items I have picked up, I carried out a type of internal “realization” through material objects’ external concept. It is a process of creation. Thus nourished, my conceptual basis gradually accumulated, to fully develop later. I used this state of mind to attain maintenance of my creative ability. Finally, through the groping process and in the course of my study of printmaking, I have abstracted a concept of procreative multiplication, which meant a match between medium and creative status.
IV. Creating Scenes, Creating Imagination: From my creative process, I have traced out patterns. I used objects I had accumulated and collected to carry out artistic expression. Through a scene-creating activity, I shift from creation of visual scenes into spiritual scenes. Visually, these scenes form some kind of state that can be roamed. They express the artistic concept of a “mutual accommodation of truth and simulation.”
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