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This creative study is based on a life experience, and aims at expressing a sequence of anguished growth memories about the author’s family during his childhood. At young, the author would unconsciously draw swirly patterns on his homework. This paper sets out with the concept of Walter Benjamin’s "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and revolves around the era of simulacra which derives from Jean Baudrillard’s work. Subjects such as images and observations are for deliberation during the creative process. The paper concludes with reflections that shift between observations and emotions originate from a recollection of his growth memory.
The theoretical foundation of this paper explores the concealed trauma in the psychological sub-consciousness that impacts the creative paths and the multiple meanings of “observations”. The author targets at probing for new ideas in the contemporary creation developed on the basis of the works by theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Gustav Jung.
The idea of this paper initiates from the whirlpool where a life description develops. Inspired by the internet simulacra, the search for images in presenting the recollection are all derived from the childhood traumatic memories triggered by the childhood observational experiences. Through the creative process, this paper organizes a confound memory. The drawing process is deemed as a ceremony that records the evolution of life, serving as an art alchemist and playing the roles of a forger as well as a creator.
Under the recurrence of the traditional western aesthetics and the era of repetitive viral images, it narrates how we view the flooded mass of virtual images, how we deal with the emotions during the creative process, and the relationships among the drawings, the photography, the internet and the author. How these multiple roles rise or fall and transform in the author’s view is what the paper plans to investigate.
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