Pottery and porcelain decoration art is mainly to decorate and embellish implements. At first human ancestors used what they have on hand to paint what they see; when environment become severe, people face nature variation and circumstances of the jungle law to cause unsafe and scared for future, it develops to worshipful behavior for unknown world, so decoration at that time is not only embellishment but with religious and mysterious mean in it. Common decoration usually is used on utensils for regular life, but for Gods and ancestors are with special patterns. We can realize human life appearance at the time through the pattern on implements; most of patterns on pottery and porcelain are with lucky mean and less narrative picture. The pattern on bronze ware is used the action of figure paper-cut silhouette to display people’s life, hunting, offering sacrifices to Gods or ancestors even war then, it takes down various scenes to let us know social condition and changing outline.
Woman’s life is limited and closed under traditional ideas after going though patriarchy age; different age has different living environment, so they will appear different social appearance; society switches from conservative atmosphere to industrial society little by little, since producing way is transformed, education is popularized, woman has chance to go out family to work, to learn economic independence and develop themselves in various fields; now women can keep pace with men in work even to surpass them. Although female has absolute leading power in economic ability and business management on the surface, but feeling inside still cannot really release from dependence causing by unsafe, this kind of entanglement from inside and outside affects deeply feminine psychology and extends to every parts of life, it is worthy to investigate and search for it further
The background of this artistic creation is from all of the above, and take modern design and traditional pattern from a brief sketch of figure, accessories using in life, woman’s related ornament to dress up plus writer’s observation and experience to give it a new annotation, to use symbolic method arranges the composition, and combine with different shape of ceramics to respond the topical subject, in accordance with what the writer saw from current social situation and living surroundings making use of narrative symbolic pattern presents the story, and find varied living scene of every generation from the process, some are primitive and magnificent, some are pure and complicated, the tracks and records left are reviewed, comprehended and reassembled and try to find the representative totem belongs to this time from it, and attempt to blend ancestral achievement and modern pattern together.