The Journal for Japanese Association of Art Education
Online ISSN : 2424-2497
Print ISSN : 0917-771X
ISSN-L : 0917-771X
A Consideration of Spaces in Scenes of Expression : As an Interpretation of the Memories that Sustain the Self
Kyoko KATAOKA
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2014 Volume 35 Pages 243-254

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This article addresses the spaces of children's experiences, and explores the possibility that encounters with impressive landscapes and reactions to spaces in creative scenes will sustain the self as human subjective awareness. On the basis of C. Rogers' theory that the experiences which one perceives positively are congruent with self-structure, I posit that the perspective of space in experiential memory is essential for positive perception. Then I explain that humans are that which want to live expressing their story through the experience of impressive space, describing the episodes of human experiences of feeling surprise in a grand landscape and playing with watercolor as a child. I conclude that the great capacity of landscape and the communality of the creative space will function to sustain children's positive perception in the processes of adventure and failure; therefore, the memories of these experiences will be the basis for sustaining the self again in crisis.
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