MUTATION OF CORROSION

• Main Author: Aji Prasetyo, Mukhamad
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/74759
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Environmental changes caused by environmental pollution have been affecting the existence and sustainability of the lives of the organisms in it. The organism that lives around the river always depends on one another. One of the affected organisms is the dragonfly. The ecosystem of dragonflies, which lives around the river environment, is disrupted by river pollution. Nowadays, the existence of dragonflies, as one of the indicators of a clean water environment indicator (a bioindicator), has increasingly disappeared from their habitat. Besides being a bioindicator, both as a nymph and an adult, dragonfly also functions as predator insect, preying on various insects and other organisms, including rice pests. This phenomenon has inspired the creation of installation art. Focusing on exploring the dragonflies’ lives has brought the artist to the dystopian disaster of the dragonflies’ ecology. The purpose of this art is to remind the importance of understanding the sustainability of nature as a step toward building a better life with it. The merit of this art is to raise public awareness to learn and broaden their knowledge of installation arts and ecology. The method used in this creation is based on research and practice conducted by Malins, Ure, and Gray. This creation involved three stages: exploration, experimentation, and evaluation. Through these stages, a work of installation art entitled "Mutation of Corrosion" was successfully created with a visual form consisting of eight hanging dragonflies, cast plastic that underwent a corrosion process, and one hundred corroded dragonfly wings.