| Summary: | 碩士 === 台南應用科技大學 === 美術系碩士班 === 105 === “Zhi-gu” (桎梏) is a Chinese compound word that references both handcuffs and legcuffs. In other words, it denotes shackles, or other contraptions designed to restrict or control movement. This concept runs parallel to the author’s own experience between 2012 and 2014, when she held herself prisoner in her own childhood shadow. Consequently, this thesis builds its foundation upon the author’s inner consciousness to retrace and narrate her entangled childhood years and its lasting effect on the author’s own existential affirmation and character development. That being the case, art and its creative process have allowed the author to face her turmoil with a positive outlook as she gradually reaffirms the values of her living-existence. Through a subjective analysis, this thesis aims to draw connections between art and its role as an expressive medium for emotions.
The author’s body of artwork is a combination of two-dimensional drawings/painting and three-dimensional sculptures. Works such as simple sketches of mental imagery or mixed-media figurines enclosed in bottles speak to the author’s emotional self-imprisonment amidst the pressure of peer-recognition. The works are containers for imperfect rudiments; it is a suffocating and immobile custody of one’s heart. However, it is also through a distant and careful reexamination of these artworks that the author can release her repressed emotions through ongoing dialogues.
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