Black Hole Messages: A Narrative of Stories and Paintings for Those Who Suffer From Depression

• Main Authors: Chuang, Fu-Yen, 莊馥嫣
• Other Authors: Wu, Ming-Fu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4nk635

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 視覺藝術學系 === 107 === 　　This research attempts to explore the creative process of “Black Hole Messages: Stories and Paintings for Those Who Suffer From Depression”- through the art-based research method. This research records the changes and perception of the interaction between “artistic expression” and “psychological experience” of the creator, presenting the process of creative concept development. It further overcomes the bottleneck of creation by combining the creator’s multiple learning experience of “artistic creation” and “Art therapy”. 　　The series of creative work, “Black Hole Messages: Stories and Paintings for Those Who Suffer From Depression,” focuses on “Depression”. In this fictional production, the creator combines the form of text with visual creations to present the correlation between “Depression” and “life history”. This creative work also reveals the creator's personal empathy and care toward people who suffer from depression. The inspiration comes from the creator’s art therapy practice in the Psychiatry Department of Hospital, as well as the creator’s personal experience of accompanying others in the doldrums and perceiving the creator’s own psychological plight. 　　Through the exploration of this creative process, the researcher has realized that, using the psychosocial issue as creation subject can also be a test of the creator’s understanding and acceptance to his or her own relevant internal experiences, the creator’s empathy and care toward others, the creator’s trust and willingness to devote deep emotions to the creative process, and the creator’s openness and ability to look at issues from different perspective. Furthermore, creation with sincerity and kind intention will help break, the boundaries of reality. It can connect “the creator”, “the audiences”, and “the people whom the creative work closely focuses on”, providing everyone a possibility of "accepting oneself, understanding others, and responding to each other".