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“Pondering” means exploration of the artist’s various works accumulated over a long period of time, and “habitual pattern” refers to the graphical symbol that the artist forms subconsciously on the creation.
The thesis mainly discusses the reason why the artist chooses animal as most written character in her works for ages. With exploration and analysis of the thesis, she gets to understand her own works, discussing the repeated appearance of animal or animal characteristic and figuring out whether the animals in the images have special significance for her.
The thesis contains 4 chapters. Chapter one originates from the repetitive behavior pattern the artist found in her own creative process—no matter what ideas she had in the beginning would eventually return to animal-related subject. After re-discussing the meaning of their existence, the artist has realized herself observing the world through trivial details. Chapter two analyzes the significance of each element in the works—visualizing animals, combining animals into different creature and replacing the artist’s perspective with animals image to convey what she tried to express. In chapter three, the artist re-examines her thoughts at the moment she finished the works, and then repeatedly cover or scrape part of the works to maintain balance. Chapter four reviews the content of the works, dissects her previous creation and digs out the creative concept, feelings, mood, and what she has going through that reflects on the works. Emotion and experience will be integrated into the works unconsciously. Therefore, examining the works is also an approach to deeply understand the self. It’s the most sincere and authentic part of the artist.
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