Elephant is an animal which has emotions and psychological expressions highly similar to those of human. Wrinkles of elephant describe their history inhered in life as if realizing itself by repeating to form traces of time and formation. For this s...
Elephant is an animal which has emotions and psychological expressions highly similar to those of human. Wrinkles of elephant describe their history inhered in life as if realizing itself by repeating to form traces of time and formation. For this study, elephant was selected as a motif representing human and wrinkles of elephant containing the meaning of life, not the only physical wrinkles appearing outside, were investigated through a metaphorical expression of its wrinkles and embodied into a piece of work.
The study, with a metaphorical expression of wrinkles of elephant, intended to express a difference in thoughts gained from repetitive experiences connoting the passage of time and various experiences of human being, a memory of human emotions according to such and a development of inner expression connoting the trace of time in a figurative or an abstract way. It was also planned to conduct a study mainly on fiber formation works by reinterpreting wrinkles targeting the expression connoting space and time.
The study intended to consider the similarity between human and elephant and the cultural symbols carried by elephant on the theoretical basis and to add the depth of expression through wrinkles appeared in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Furthermore, a work was embodied by utilizing two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and applying various production techniques such as image photographing. Among a broad range of techniques, drawing dyeing, silkscreen, DTP (Digital Textile Printing), wax resist dyeing, crack, colored discharge printing, white discharge printing, bleaching dyeing, combustion method and image photographing were used in this study.
‘Wrinkle' was selected as an object of expression through the theoretical background and an attempt of production for a work and it was able to show the effective formativeness in producing a work described with a metaphorical expression. Drawing dyeing, silkscreen and DTP techniques which were able to show a realistic expression with a fiber formation expression could display repeatedly the projective property of time and the image with the effect of superposition appearing in a space. These were suggested that they could be expressed with a modern expression technique which allows creating a new image. Moreover, wax resist dyeing, crack, colored discharge printing, white discharge printing, bleaching dyeing techniques and combustion method in flat surface were able to express metaphorically the overlapping effect of colors, a change of colors according to technique and a process of eliminating material by combustion.
It was verified that color formation which appears after adding color on the surface of cement and PVC show different brightness and chroma from silk and cotton that used by the researcher and show the color formation of oil paints in pure fine arts.
Lastly, through a fluid moving by image photographing not the freeze-frame, it was filmed both of the floating passage of time with adding visual effect and realistic sensation along with emotional expression. In addition, it was suggested that an enlargement of metaphorical expression of wrinkles via expressing them as a new cognition in experience.
With the work of the researcher, it was attempted to produce a work with artistic merit through the passage of time in flat, the expression of superimposition in space, the use of various materials, the features of each technique and production processes. Besides, the study was to increase the possibility of artistic values of modern fiber crafts with pure painting expression of modern art, that is to say, nonfunctional expression, with the use of expression techniques and various materials to express fiber formation of modern art.