The Confused of“Instinct Yoke”： The Discourse of Hsieh I-Tsun’s Maternal Creative Painting

• Main Authors: Hsieh I-Tsun, 謝宜純
• Other Authors: Chang Ching-Feng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15726503709711752776

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 視覺藝術研究所碩士在職專班 === 102 === Maternity is regarded as a woman's "duty" and depicts women as the best candidates in raising children and assuming the role of undertaking tasks such as long-term housework and childcare. The mother should be secular "in accord with the innate maternal instinct" to meet the needs of their children. However motherhood is not always a totally positive experience and there can be negative emotions and experiences also. As a woman and mother myself, I try to look upon “maternal instinct” from different points of view from my own life experiences to these three relatively missions: (1) Mother: motherhood yoke. (2) livelihood: to teach that all genders are equal, and breaking traditional impression. (3) Creation: female femininity brewing motherhood painting. My way to highlight motherhood is deeply rooted in patriarchal tasks, through dreams as a catalyst in digesting the reality of experience, the beauty of life reproduction, the subconscious and the purest imagery. I would create a series of works to complete the creation of four themes: "a state of existence without me" to explore motherhood and women's opposition; "good mother myth" to expose the complexity of the experience of motherhood and the idea that pain and pleasure can coexist; "suspect opened the senses confused "conscious motherhood and women's dialectic;" the possibility of self-actualization", reflections of motherhood and women's choices - trying to figure out motherhood for women's positioning and value, from the reconstruction of self-understanding.