英文摘要
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This thesis aims to explicate how the author as a graduate student developed creative approaches and turned them into sui generis vocabulary for artistic creation. This thesis proceeds in four chapters. The first chapter provides an overview on the motivations, themes and research questions of this thesis, followed by the discussion on a workable definition of the trajectory of life. Echoing the definition, the second chapter examines contemporary social environment from the author’s personal perspective. This chapter also addresses the questions as to how human beings habitually make use of things, what difference the globalized communication can make to our quotidian existence, and how should we speculate about the meaning of objects’ emergence and presence. Moreover, this chapter includes a comparative analysis of the difference in environmental concerns between Taiwan and Japan by reference to the author’s one-year experience as an exchange student in Japan that also inspired the author’s re-orientation of creative approach later. The third chapter mainly analyzes the artworks with a specific focus on the selection of media and the distinct features of the media selected. Applying the concepts of deconstruction and reconstruction to freely depicting the concrete and the abstract, this chapter further reshapes and represents the objects, thereby investigating the postures that media take on as two different sets of creative vocabulary. The final chapter concludes the discussion with the following questions. Wherein do the strengths of the artworks lie when the media and the approaches are fragile in nature? Is it possible that different ways of viewing would converge into a common interpretation? By answering these questions, this thesis makes a new attempt to explore new possibilities that may lead to the great accumulation of invaluable assets to the author’s career as an artist.
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