DIARY OF SLIGHT DIFFERENCES IN EVERYDAY LIFE

• Main Author: Arazzi, Aurora
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/69563
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

A phase of life that is getting faster brings significant changes to how people pay attention to their surroundings. The need to fulfill the demands immediately sometimes makes us miss and no longer appreciate or interpret the little things that might inspire us. Every day feels constant; it's like we were only repeating yesterday. Human sensitivity in looking at their surroundings and environment is getting duller each day. A time to stop and rest is necessary for humans to understand the small changes in their daily lives. Rain is a daily phenomenon that became the trigger for this work because rain consistently happens almost every day. The dust particles carried by each raindrop can leave random traces on a surface once it dries. This process intersects with a term in the drawing discipline called mark-making. The series of images left by rainwater is collected to present abstraction in the form of a sign. The traces from rainwater can also indicate how the environment around us changes little by little without us realizing it. The activity of collecting marks is in line with how printmaking works are created from a series of patterned processes, invented to what is called routine. The experience of working in the printmaking studio for over four years creates a new sensitivity and perspective when it comes to observing everyday phenomena outside the studio. An attempt to record and freeze something ephemeral through the stages of the print process is how I mark the repetitive day become matter by exposing slight differences in the form of signs between the days that look the same. Then traces of rainwater were translated into printmaking works using the intaglio photopolymer technique and drawing on paper. This work is expecting can be able to open up ideas about how the slightest changes can be so meaningful to expose in our life that passes so quickly and also a reflection of environmental condition that changes over time.