An Encounter with the Unknown Inner Visions on the Road Drawing: An Inquiry of Symbols in Personal Creative Process

• Main Authors: Hsueh Hsin-Chiao, 薛心喬
• Other Authors: Wu Ming-Fu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71365457265630017302

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 藝術治療碩士學位學程 === 100 === This study is an art- based research. The data is gathered from the researcher’s 13 sessions of the visual art-making process. The purposes of this study are to investigate the personal symbolization experiences during the visual art-making process and the research process, as well as the factors which affect the symbolization experiences under the research design. The results are shown as follows: 1. The researcher’s personal symbolization experience: (1)The symbolization experience in “the inner visions on the road drawing“ art-making process shows: First, road drawing helps express important life issues as well as the symbols help express emotions, discover evading feelings, and aware self condition and the hopes for the future. Second, to find supporting companions is necessary for the creator to avoid negative effects. Finally, to keep exploring the symbols on the road drawing helps to produce new understanding of the inner and outside world.(2)The symbolization experience in the interpretation of the art work shows: Betensky’s Phenomenological ways of seeing and Jung’s Amplification method facilitate personal symbolic understanding towards the images.(3)The symbolization experience in the research process shows:“symbolization must be intervened with emotional attention”, ”the creator experiences faith healing from image symbolization”,“the creator faces the bipolar struggles of symbolization powers in life”, “the creator gains self-understanding and self-acceptance from introspecting the symbolic interactive relationship between the creator and the art works”. 2. The factors which affect the symbolization experience under this research design are the following: art works, art-making process, self-review recording, witness writing and the creator. Lastly, based on the results of this study, introspections and suggestions are proposed for reference of the future research.