To be Just a Vessel or More — The Description of Chang Shu-Chen’s Ceramic Sculptures

• Main Authors: CHANG, SHU-CHEN, 張淑珍
• Other Authors: Liou, Chen-Chou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ppt9ym

碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 工藝設計學系 === 106 === In ancient times, soft and plastic clay was the most easily obtained media for creation. It was made into a variety of vessels and utensils with different shapes and functions to provide household storage, cooking and other different needs. Among artistic creation materials, it also had the most female creators. In the process of raising children, I deeply experience the great changes in the body and the mind as a women. The belly dance learning process post-preganancy also lets me deeply feel the strength of female body internally as well as the praise of life. During this process, I found that women are a kind of vessels incubating lifes, just like ceramics who debate and speculate their self-nature in this post-modern trend of thought. This paper discusses the connection between the spirit of ceramic containers and the feminine self-consciousness through the creation of ceramic art with the objectives below. 1. Research the essence of women, restore women to the purest noumenon, and reshape the female creation myth. 2. Study the multiple aspects of the vessel by the concept of life energy flow. 3. Present diverse values and feminine signifiers in the postmodern feminist thinking through the creation of ceramic art.