FOGSCAPE: REPRESENTION OF DISTANCE AND IDENTITY THROUGH DRAWING

• Main Author: Bagus Wedanta Yogananda, Kadek
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/83522
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

An individual will be aware of their own cultural identity when there is distance between them and the landscape where they used to live and grew up. Thus, landscape plays an imporant role in defining an individual’s and a group’s cultural identity. “Fogscape” is a series of works that depicts eight blurry landscapes. Through these depictions, the author discusses the relations between distance, landscape, and identity. This series of works is based on theories such as art as representation, Immanuel Kant’s theory on sublime, and landscape. Other theories, which are collective memory and the identity of Hindu-Balinese people, also contribute to the making of this work. Vija Celmins’ and Hurvin Anderson’s works are the main references for this work in terms of visual, methods, medium, and idea. This study then becomes the basis for the ideation and the making of this series of works. “Fogscape” is made by using H-series graphite pencils. The thin lines made by the pencils are layered on top of each other until they form the shape of landscapes on paper’s surface. Through this method, the author creates images of blurry landscapes, as though they are covered by fog. The blurry and hardto-identify landscapes force the audience to contemplate and remember the landscapes that are like the ones depicted in the works. Each work in this series depicts landscapes that the author visited in their birthplace, the island of Bali. Through the making of this work, the author bears in mind those landscapes and contemplates the relationship between them and their birthplace, as well as their identity as a Balinese person. Ultimately, “Fogscape” brings the author to the realization that those landscapes shape their identity as a Balinese person. This identity won’t disappear and instead would develop as the author encounters new experiences.