Wound and Healing：An Artistic Discourse of Private Space

• Main Authors: Yang, Mei-Ying, 楊美英
• Other Authors: 林偉民
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55893737713089503591

碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 美術創作碩士班在職專班 === 101 === "Wound and Healing: An artistic Discourse of Private Space”, which states the author's life stage on psychological process and personality change. The process is a transfer from the workplace depression and alternatives to the artistic healing. The profound objects in memory and dreams have been deconstructed and reorganized. On the process, the struggle under desire, emotional attachments in anxiety and self-conversion behind the dark feelings have been recorded. In view of psychology, sociology, this essay analyzes the author's emotional state in the stages of life to the point of control psychologist Sigmund Freud's and Carl Gustav Jung's theory of personality, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. This discourse aims at exploring the personality appearance in social shaping anxiety and defense mechanisms; in the research of artistic creation, collecting data from Western art history: the ready-made objects, surrealism, installation art, and the artist works & information to organize, analyze, compare them in echoing the relevance of the author's artist practice. From their creative healing spiritual paths of Rene Magritte, Frida Kahlo, Louise bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle and among the others, artistic concepts and creative spirit can be therefore learned. 　 　　Private space creation can be divided into three series: 1."Wounds memory": it may be traced back as the author's resistance behavior is generated by anxiety due to social constraints and bundled desires. Through alternatives, the inner depression, loneliness, closeness, contradiction, impulsion and other mental states can be freely expressed. 2."Darkroom corner ": interprets the laments of a dying life. After mourning in sadness, darkness has been regarded as a force that records a self-transformation and healing process. 3. "Red Realm": a movie in 1952, directed by Albert Lamorisse, red balloon for reflection, combined with a creative context, the interception of the child's body, hands and balloons, and other components from the film creation and association, is to express the personal life of the body to have recognition and feeling. The private space is not only a past memory; it is also an awareness and realization of their lives. It is to view psychological process in life; in the creation, frankly exposing privacy is a spiritual dialogue in private; in which, healing and getting back one's true self can be obtained; by doing so, it may convey the value and inspiration in experience of life. Keywords: Wound, Anxiety, Healing, Private Space