The dissertation discusses the connection between symbolic codes and meaningful memory in my paintings. This code-memory connection explores a question of how an artist’s personal background, living environment and special experiences to influence an artist’s consciousness of seeing things and to establish visual codes for meaningful memory. Furthermore, the dissertation also analyzes many artists’ thoughts that edit and rearrange visual codes on works of art. Lastly, reviewing my works of art in this dissertation aims to uplift my sensitive sensation while making art pieces. It also leads me to analyze multiple relationships among self, other people, environment and time; hence deeper notions of life and memory coding.
The dissertation has five chapters. Chapter One explains research motivation, research purposes, research fields and methods. Chapter Two is literature review that refers scholarly articles, books and other academic sources relevant to characters of memory, coding and search methods of exploring memory symbols. Literature review also touches upon visualized meaningful message of paintings as a result of an artist’s growing background and living experience. Hence, an artist is able to understand how to reproduce and build visualized consciousness for paintings through image analysis.
Chapter Three mentions some artists as examples of whose works of art surround connections between memory coding and meaningful memory. By following other artists’ examples, literature reviews as well as my art content, drafts and art medium draw a clearly picture of my concept. Chapter Four analyses my three series of works. Minifigures series adopts mini human figures to reinterpret meaningful daily memory. Visible Shapes of Memory series engages a select art medium to reexamine diverse situations that have had happened in my different stages of life. This series presents a common process to form various code-memory connections in my paintings. A Scenario of My Consciousness expands meanings of previous two series and also combines with my ideas of time and life. I aim to build a scenario for my own consciousness from my perception. Chapter Five is the conclusion to rethink the research of my paintings and my perspective on the future.