Creativities of Sculptures: Father Form of Thought

Abstract

The creation aimed to study, analyze, and interpret the creator’s imaginary experience with the father for the synthesis of the creative process. The data collection of from documentary and field study from rural villages in Isan region [The North-Eastern side of Thailand] and then bring it to analyze and explain according to the conceptual framework, the theory is combined with the ideas, emotions and fantasies. The process include sketching, procurement, and preparation of materials, and creative work.

        The results of the study show: The image of father, representing the man of the Isan region who work in agriculture career and he also work hard to build a stable life and family amidst the social changes in the Isan rural from farming for household consumption to agriculture for industrial production by using manpower and existing tools. It is a difficult and exhausting life. That led to the creation of 3 sculptures were made using the form of bones which were carved from old wood. The main component of the house uses agricultural tools such as tractors wheels, hoe, and rice bat. The effect is when form, materials and assembly create a harmonious effect together with unity. These are making the work which able to create imagery conveys and give a feeling of use body organs to work. Heavy drag exertion of physical strength and insecurity which is the images that the creator have seen them since childhood, in family and in general in the Isan countryside.

The results have contributed the body of knowledge in searching for forms and materials that relating to each other in both physically and meaningfully. The studies, analysis, content interpretations, as well as the inspirational stories enabled the conceptual framework to select forms and materials that correspond to the aims of the creation explicitly. The straightforward management with materials and compositions of the images made the works attractive and showed aesthetics in terms of the contents, forms, materials, and complete appearances. The creations, therefore, either reflected the attitude, idea, experiences, and feelings of the artist apparently.