This thesis is about a study of Fiber art based on conducted by exploring memories appearing in the present time, because of a doubt about the 'memories' when the researcher saw some childhood photos. The life consists of a lot of various experiences....
This thesis is about a study of Fiber art based on conducted by exploring memories appearing in the present time, because of a doubt about the 'memories' when the researcher saw some childhood photos. The life consists of a lot of various experiences. The entire experiences distinguish self from others are recordings that prove the existence of self and objects of memory. Such a memory, the basis of cognitive activities is changed due to new time and experience and simultaneously accumulated in unconsciousness. The memories that individuals recall are combinations of individual memory images, and therefore, the result of subjective interpretation. Suddenly recalled and perceived memories are realized ones which bring about correspondence between past emotions and senses, and also newly restored image memories to the researcher.
Such image memories attempt to represent experiences and impressions of them, the main themes of works by using past photos and textiles as materials. To this end, this study examined meanings of the memory and that identified by Henri Bergson. In the『Matter and Memory』, he recognizes the memory as consciousness contrasted with matter and explains the memory by classifying it into genuine(souvenir pur), habitual(souvenir habitude) and image memory(souvenir image). According to him, the genuine memory means all memories preserved as our experiences themselves in unconsciousness, while habitual one is the memory that adheres to the present, such as tools or languages acquired through a movement mechanism. The image memory which is really perceived one among genuine one embedded in unconsciousness is authentic one acknowledged by Bergson.
Then, 'Bernard Faucon' and 'Tracey Emin' who examined material properties of fiber and images of photos for representing the image memory and expressed their childhood by using photos and fiber were selected as sample artists and analyzed. Faucon represented his childhood on photos by using mise-en-scene techniques, while Emin represented her memories by putting texts related with them on the fabric which had been actually used by her, with the applique. This study reflected theoretical backgrounds of their works that embodied image memories by explaining both artists and their representative works.
The researcher created a total of four work series, which were largely divided into one that expressed image memories with various ornamental materials and fiber through the contrast between material properties in them by using childhood photos as materials and the other that embodied image memories with implicate objects, by using old clothes as materials. Some sewing techniques were used to express image memories as fiber materials or a combination between those and ornamental materials. Here, fiber materials and some ornamental materials(beads, sequins) with stronger reflective effects of light result in the contrasting effect of visual images and material properties of textiles, and old clothes are sewed with various kinds of threads, in order to vivify matiere, the quality of fiber. Different from previous studies which represented past memories by describing them, this study aims to evolve them into present emotions and senses and express image memories that are embodied in the present, rather than remain them as past one.
All of present moments create new memories, coexisting with the past. This study reaffirms advantages of material properties of textiles and potential of open expressions, with new experiences that reminding the importance of the present and gives the basis for studies on expressions of material properties of textiles and form derived from combinations between textile and other materials. It is expected to contribute to continuance of studies on formativeness and material properties of textiles and support other studies on fiber art works with the theme of image memory.