摘要：Since the beginning of time art-making has been a tool to express, preserve, and challenge theextant knowledge in society. Artists do this by finding or creatively constructing new understandingsin society. An artist is able to do this through the medium he/she uses to relay themessage of the artwork. The medium that an artist uses to express his/her artistic concept hasan impact on the character that the artwork will take. The medium of expression forms but oneof the many considerations that go through an artist’s mind when creating art. In the process ofart-making, an artist seeks to create new meanings or re-imagine old ones by organizing materialsand concepts. In so doing, he/she discovers novel ways to get ideas across, and thereby createsnew interpretations of social phenomena. In this article, attention is given to meaning-makingas a conscious and iterative component of creating art. From a series of in-depth interviews, theauthors analyze the inward processes that occur within six artists’ creative praxes and how theselead their construction of meaning. Attention is also paid to how the artists manipulate conceptsand how they construct and deconstruct their understandings of these concepts in the course oftheir creative endeavors.
