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The Study of Using Mandala Drawing for Emotional Relief

國立臺灣藝術大學 / 視覺傳達設計學系 / Author:CHEN, HAN-KUANG

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Modern People live in the stressful environment full of competition that usually causes them to suppress their emotion. Once the long-time suppressed emotion breaks out and counterattacks, anomy will happen. This research aims to ease and integrate tense emotion through combination of Mandala drawing symbolizing Self and writing. The creator can be more tolerant to external life adaptation through expanding their inner self awareness in creating process. This research starts with the discourse of the meaning, origin, and image structure of Mandala art. Next comes with the discussion of art therapy, Libido and its mechanism of transformation. Thereafter, the researcher analyzes and sorts out the actual cases. Based on the results derived above, the next step of research is to start from the three layers of human nature presented by Goethe, concurring with the exploration of body, mind, and spirit. Then the concept of creation is set up. The steps of real creation are as follows. First of all, the creator will take pictures of daily-life touching scenes, which will become the original materials of creation. Next, the creator will make Mandala drawing following the sense with the image process technique of computers. Finally, the creator will integrate the inner emotion by free writing.

There are 15 works finished and exhibited with appeal of emotion smoothing and integration. Through literature review and the analysis, discussion of creating process comes with the following conclusion: 1.Emotion can be regarded as a kind of Libido, and the art creation provides with the pathway of energy let-off, which has the function of venting emotion and pressure. 2.The expression of art can integrate time and space, during which the emotion called out can be experienced again. Each memory retrieval is the chance of transformation to let you rewrite again. 3.Through the order and completeness of Mandala pictures, the creator’s emotion can be led to stable state and hint the emblem of returning to completeness. 4.The writing after the finish of works will be able to make subconsciousness go through the conscientization process, and integrate the cognition to improve the individuals' adaptation to life.