THE SYMBOLISM OF TIGER AS SELF PERSONIFICATION

• Main Author: Azzahra, Hamidah
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/71261
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

iger representation, in many cases, is portrayed symbolically through various forms, characters, and in a proper scientific form, also how they endure facing challenges of natural change. The fascinating thing is that observing and understanding the configuration of the tiger can represent the inner experience of human personality. As we have internal problems to avoid animal behavior inside, we do understand there is a mental conflict that goes hand in hand with the animalistic side that lives and grows inevitably inside us in this society. Visualization of this subject matter can actualize through the symbolism method using watercolor techniques on paper that can represent the author's awareness. Exploration of symbolic images through the configuration of a tiger's shape and other objects like stringy nests, trunks, and butterflies connecting the process of adapting to self-conflict of ambiguous timeline and space, anticipating oneself to wait and face their self. This final project produces five drawings with variations of tiger shape and form within a single theme. In making these artworks, the author gains personal experience to understand himself better.