Metamorphoses — Multiple Self-Portraits： Creation Description by Lin Tzu-Chiao

• Main Authors: Lin Tzu-Chiao, 林子喬
• Other Authors: 程代勒
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02475947870296366379

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 美術學系 === 99 === This dissertation begins with an inner reflection on self as subject. Through personal observation and dialogue with the psyche, the writer examined his own consciousness and sub-consciousness, and from this process, has developed a series of transfigured human forms. Meanwhile, the writer has used these creatures as a starter to explore a new kind of multiple self-portraits of modern times. Taking Carl Jung’s concepts of “persona”and “ombre”(shadow) as main points of reference, supported with Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytical concepts of “mirror stage,” the writer also offered his personal experience and creating background as materials to be related to or analyzed. These multiple self-portraits were done with simplified, exaggerated, and grotesque expressions. The figures have cartoon-styled heads and realistically-sketched bodies. With combination of several media (like ink, glue colors, charcoal pencils…) the writer/painter has created visual images of mixed styles. Using “body”and “human shapes”as a main way to creatively express himself, the writer/painter probed into his memories psychoanalytically. It was in this interchange between conscious and subconscious phases, between reality and dreams, between outpouring of creative energy and self-reflection that “transfigured shapes”stood out as a distinctive feature of his paintings.A human form appeared on a painting as a result/embodiment of the writer/painter’s inner process, and then another inner process began as a result of his interaction with this painted human form. That is to say, the writer/painter’s unique “feelings and understanding” of the moment triggered the formation of a particular“shape”, and this certain “shape” in turn induced another round of “feelings and understanding”. Thus is born the indefinite and ever-evolving “multiple self-portraits”.