FORM OF SURVIVAL: SYMBOLIC NARRATIVE OF FOOD CONSTRUCTION THROUGH DRAWING

• Main Author: Ami Hapsari, Fatima
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/83562
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The Final Project concept raised by the author stems from her previous academic experience in the field of pharmacy. During her education in pharmacy, the author learned that food, especially fruits and vegetables, has an important role to help human survival. Therefore, the author tries to connect it with the theme of survival through this final project. The problem formulation used includes how the issue of survival can be represented through drawing works and how the construction of food can form symbolic meanings. In answering the problem formulation, the artwork is then reinforced using several theories, namely Art as Symbol Theory and Logotherapy Theory. The theory of art as a symbol is used to read the whole of the combined food construction that forms the object of representation of objects for survival. Then, Logotherapy Theory is used to give the artist's subjective meaning resulting from personal interpretation of the symbolic meaning of each element in the visual work. The results of the analysis can be seen in six works. The first work represents the issue of survival using a tent object constructed of food with vitamin C content. The second work uses a life jacket composed of food structures with vitamin A and C content. Work two uses a life jacket composed of food structures with vitamin A and C content. Work three uses a war mask as a representation object composed of food structures such as bell peppers, salak, melon, pomegranate, cabbage, tomato, pineapple, dragon fruit, and onion. Work four uses a lifeboat as a representation of survival composed of food structures in the form of salmon, tuna, tilapia, shrimp, squid, and kerrang. Work five uses a hot air balloon as a representation of survival constructed from the food of chicken, cabbage, string beans, blueberries, mushrooms, salak, and pineapple. Finally, work six uses a fire extinguisher as a representation of survival constructed from food in the form of cactus, grasshoppers, buds, and bamboo. The object of survival representation and the structure of the food that forms it then correlate in terms of the functions and benefits of both. The correlation then becomes the author's interpretation.