PANDEMIC : ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION

• Main Author: Zulfa Hidayati, Lukluk
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Kesenian; seni rupa dan dekorasi
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/62465
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Pandemic: Atmospheric Corrosion is the author's attempt to metaphor the author's feelings when facing the COVID-19 pandemic through a part of the process when working on the intaglio printing technique. The obligation of 'Work From Home' requires writers to stay at home and make the boundaries of all interests mixed. Day after day makes the mind more and more saturated and at the same time, the author is reminded of the acidification process when working with the intaglio technique. The more the writer questions it, the more the writer feels that there are similarities between the work-from-home condition and the acidification process. Working only from inside the house slowly erodes the soul, mind, and energy like corrosion that occurs on copper plates during acidification. This condition triggers the writer to look further for things related to corrosion of copper. The search led the author to the fact that copper is able to protect itself from corrosion that occurs in the air. Corrosion in the air reminds the author of the pandemic atmosphere from inside the room. The atmosphere at that time was tense and slowly took up the spaces of the writer's mind and soul. In copper, it shows its ability to protect itself by producing a patina compound. From this, the author was amazed by the ability of copper as an inanimate object that is able to protect itself. Therefore, the author wants to present a work as a unified symbol of the author's feelings when facing the COVID-19 pandemic. The work departs from the author's passion for questioning the relevance of the process in Printmaking with the daily life that the author must live. The question is saved and sparked to reappear when the author faces conditions and situations that are felt to be similar. One of them is the similarity between the process of immersing a metal plate into an acidic liquid with the author's condition which requires staying at home during the pandemic. The copper plate had to deal with its corrosion in water, while the writer had to endure the corrosion through the grueling pandemic atmosphere. The metaphor is present in the form of installations that imitate important objects during the pandemic, such as disinfectant booths and hand sanitizers.