Abstract

The writing and art work in "The stainless steel window" documented my anxiety, depressed mood, and the feeling of lost, things haunted me during the graduate study. Insulating tape was used as the media to express my life and living condition and presented as paintings and installations. Through the process, the concept of stainless steel window was presented to express my emotion and transferred into re-organized images. My ambiguous thirst for freedom as well as stability therefore found a shelter. The endless lines were either simplified or complicated as a new world that began to open my eyes in the making of art works.

In the writing of the first chapter, I’ve described my confusion of the period from the end of internship in the elementary school and the beginning of the graduate study. I tried to express this confused situation through the insulating tapes. Through a few experiments, I focused on the subject of “The Stainless steel window” in the second chapter. I explain the structure of stainless steel window by the concept of structuralism and deconstruction. In this chapter, I referred to the artistic works that is painted by Frank Stella and explicates its structure and deconstruction. I also documented this series of works executed by the insulating tape, to elaborate on the analog of the stainless steel window. In Chapter three, I described the form and the concept of the series of works. The form of works was the combination of the front substance and background. The use of automatic techniques of the painting was presented as outside and inside of the window that divided the contents into different layers, as well as different points of views to describe the meaning of my works. Finally, in the last chapter, I documented perseverance and passion of my artwork from the period of this study.

During this study, I’ve learned the methodology to clarify my need through the making of art.