METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF ANOMALIES

• Main Author: Aziizah, Adinda
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/71538
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

This world is run with simulations and routines to ensure predictability, but the world is also filled with spontaneity that we couldn’t predict at all, and it makes us feel uneasy. Routines were based on the rules, norms, and morality, that were made to ensure the safety and welfare of society. The perfect world starts to affect some individuals, that’s overanalyzing themselves and becoming fearful of their actions in public eyes, that’s also taking a toll of our mental health. That is the main problem from the perfection of this mundaneness. Social ostracization is a huge problem in today’s society, because of expectations and standards, we usually ignore those who couldn't blend in or are different. Excluded figures from the group are deemed imperfect and would be branded as a disgrace to society or an Anomaly. The Anomalies then got overwhelmed by everything and had a meltdown, and that’s causing more fear from society so they isolate the anomaly even more, an endless cycle. The Anomaly lives in a dystopian world, that worships symmetry, stability, and perfection, that world will judge and exclude, those who couldn’t abide This concept underlies the author's Final Project work, surrounding the idea of exclusion of imperfect individuals. The entire work discusses how Anomaly views routines, expectations, and the perfect standards that are enforced by the dystopian world, so thus they experience a meltdown and are ostracized by society. The author chooses painting as the work medium, because the need of symbolic representation that could describe the whole idea, such as the depiction of routines and mundane environments in the dystopian world, which is a representation of the real world that we usually experience every day, as well as representations of meltdown emotions that could be seen literally. The representation of the painting aims to make the observer feel connected and empathize with the concept beforehand.