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The starting point of the author’s series 「Decline」come from feelings that his family was aging. Because of the impact, the death of his grandfather had on him and when he had to face the degeneration of his grandmother’s eye functions, he was so worried that he then realized that human life is in a constant process of continuous degradation. On the other hand, the author also thinks that when one’s life will come to its end point. How to face this concern? These worries, these deep thoughts impel the author to the decline of life in a series of creative themes. He uses the melting point of a human body to express the defeat and dispersion of life to convey the process of completeness or incompleteness. This paper is divided into six chapters: the first chapter being the introduction, it explains the creative background and motivation, it also presents the structure of the research and description of the key terms. The second chapter explains the theoretical foundations, which can be divided into four sections – the first section being the operation of life, collecting different cultures, theories, philosophies of life and death. The second section is the anatomical history: it expands how humans look at and represent death. The third section speaks of the semiotic analysis of miniatures and modernist sculptures discussing their ways of processing media and pinpointing their different methods the. In the second and third sections, a literature review will be conducted at the same time, supplemented by the artist’s annotations . In the fourth section, the author collects the literature related to the creative research and briefly describes his own creative ideas and according to a series of analysis form of expression. The fourth chapter explains the use of media, as well as display techniques. The fifth chapter shows the brief creative achievements of photo displays. Finally, chapter six summarizes the entire study, analyzes wherever it can be improved and describe the future perspectives.
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