The aim of this research explains this ; What kind of experience do early 20's women who went
through their parents' divorce when they were teenagers, express through art works about their self
images? And what are the meaning and the essence of their experiences? For these, I, the researcher,
select 7 voluntary participants of the research, who went thought their parents' divorce then they were
teenagers, and in order to understand vividly the meaning of their experiences. Max van Manen's
research methodology of the hermeneutic Phenomenological qualitative research has been applied to
have clear understanding of the participants’experience. The period of the data's collection was from
September, 2014 to June, 2015, collecting the in-delth interviews and paintings and I finished the
collection when the data were saturared. For the basis of 9 essential topics and 35 subtopics, I find
4 conclusions as follows; First, these research participants' minds are definitely hurt due to their
parents' divorce, when I see their art works, expressed through their self-images. This their art works
become the safe media, through which they face the hidden self-images and their negative and
evasive feelings are safely expressed.Second, these research participants can really ruminate on their
negative influences about relationships with the opposite sex and social relationships, due to the
divorces, through the visualization-course of their art works. Third, through the art works, the research
participants can recognize their traces of inner conflicts with parents, expressed unconsciously through
the art works, so they can reestablish the relationships with parents. Also, they had the wrong outlook on marriage, but fundamentally, they can forgive their parents, understanding them as ordianry people
through these participations. Forth, the art work experience enabled the participants to express their
suppressed feelings, accept themselves and to have an individual meaning that they can hopefully
exist with the positive & true 'self'.