What has been evoked from an exploration with the meaning of a self’s life to the settling of his/her life images is an interpretation of the meaning of a self’s life made through this evocation and completed by images. However, looking through the lens of the essence of a painting, the subjects of self-life and creation are facing a fracture and a paradox existing between the traditional and the contemporary. This conflict between the East and the West has been a focus of dispute resolution among cultural figures for nearly a hundred years. Yet, different from this focal point, the creator encountered a cultural problem emerging from creative painting. This problem is not only about the conflict between the East and the West but also about finding a way to reconcile the performance of contemporary tools with the tradition.

Drawing from the above observation, the creator uses the computer as a media and a technique to construct a special way of being and to find a way to correspond and reconcile with the traditional painting. As the traditional ink painting is rooted in a non-visual existence that belongs to the sphere of atmosphere, the definition of atmosphere and its implications as well as the visual explorations possibly afforded by it have been foundational to the blending of the traditional and the contemporary. Further, this dissertation attempts to illustrate how the computer as an extremely distinctive contemporary tool possessing aesthetics could simplify the self’s issue arising from the traditional atmosphere that goes “from the natural to the unnatural,” “from the dynamic to the static,” from “the flatting of the traditional depth,” and from “the impact dialogue effect caused by modern elements” back to the creation to form substance. On the other hand, the creator will also examine the problems arising from the uses of contemporary atmosphere and encountered in actual creation. Such problems include “pure dynamic and abstract tension effect,” “established relationships with traditional figurative art formed by contrast,” “the way in which abstract form manifests the concept of atmosphere,” and “the abstract’s expansion and transcendence of the meaning of the traditional atmosphere.”

In short, this dissertation seeks to find a way of expression that stabilizes the relationship between the self and the creation. This study of the creative process begins with a self-exploration, involves cross-cultural studies, art histories, and the concept of aesthetics in the process and finally an investigation into the essence of self-creation and art exploration.