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I had fraction with my family, which deeply hurt me. To protect myself and with a strong desire of healing myself, I started this creative research. This research begins with self exploration. Based on the perspectives of the C. G. Jung psychological school, I had my own inner self and outer self examined, through which I became more knowing about the true myself. Then, I looked into the psychological defense mechanism that I took to protect myself in the face of predicament and frustration, and I tried to identify which defense mechanism was the best to truly protect me from being hurt. Further, to heal the pain long existent in my heart, I had to know about the connotation, purpose, and means of art therapy, while the conception and connotation of the art therapy's expressionism vastly broadened the therapy's scope and restrictions. And that was the theoretical basis on which I was eager to have my psychological trauma healed through this creative research. In the end, I explored into the principles of art therapy healing psychological wounds, in hopes that the findings would help me heal the wounds deep in my heart. This creative artwork comes in three series. The first one is the "Defend" series, which is a product out of my own self protection. The second one is the "Heal" series, in which I desired to take a journey of artwork creation to heal the wounds in my heart. And the third one is the "In-between Me And Others" series, through which I had a retrospection of the way I got along with others and the bridging relationship. All the three series took organic wool as the artwork material. In the creation process, I used the jabbing and scrubbing skills to help myself release the pain deep in my heart. In the course, however, I was gradually pacified by the job I was doing, and I started dialogues with myself, which helped me leave the pain behind, and realize the true inner thoughts I had on my mind.
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