It is normal to feel lost when time pass. The author tries to find a method to reserve daily experience, such as emotions, images, memories, and feelings. The author wants to connect the common feelings that arise among the artwork, audience, and the author. For the author, art is a way to visualize, record, and transform these feelings. The author creates a sensory image system through summarizing and analyzing the author’s works and personal experience. The author use emotional symbols to record the author’s feeling and notions. She collects these symbols along with audiences’ feedback and analyze them through graph analysis. The author wishes to make this process into a shared experience.
This thesis explores feelings, senses, and subconscious. The author tries to find the origin and usage of ideas, how our daily sensory experience influences our notions and behaviors, and the subconscious that hidden in works. The author finds out life, dream, and experience are good materials for artworks. Life turns into experience and memories through sensor organs. The author thinks these experiences will develop into personal sensor system through arrangement and analysis in brain.
On the other hand, our feelings and thoughts are the revelation of our subconscious. The easiest way to detect our subconscious is through dream, which reflects people’s hidden personality. Phycologist Carl Gustav Jung refers to the idea of collective unconscious, which explains that why people live in different region would have similar dreams and myths. The author thinks collective unconscious is one reason that causes people to have common feelings.
The theme in the thesis includes daily life, feelings, and dream, aiming at finding personal feeling symbols. These symbols can be used as an objective analysis of author’s inspiration that come from the external world and the balance between the author’s internal and external world.