THE GAP BETWEEN INTENTION AND CONSEQUENCE: A REPRESENTATION OF SELF EXISTENCE THROUGH DRAWING

• Main Author: Giulietta Nur Shadrina, Flavia
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/83585
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The phenomenon when one's freedom of expression is restricted by another's views can be included as one of the phenomena of gaze. Because other people's eyes are likely to judge, the author limits the scope of her expression and actions. It then affects the author's personality and how the author perceives herself and her existence. The series "The Gap Between Intention and Consequence" contains five drawings of the author's contemplation of the forms of her existence that live between the way the author carries herself and the way others look at her. This series of works is based on art theory as representation and the theory of gaze in Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism theory. Furthermore, Diane Arbus, John Coplans, and David Hockney were the artists whose work the author referenced in the production of the series "The Gap Between Intention and Consequence". The media the writer uses to work with is soft pastel and pastel pencil. The drawing method used is the accumulation of repeatedly ripped and rubbed over lines onto paper modules. Through this method, the visual of the finished artworks have the quality of hyperrealism style. Hyperrealism represents the instigation of a writer to the view of others towards herself. Through the configuration of the pieces of another's body, the writer presents the form of her existence built from people's view of herself. There are five configurations of forms in the series of works, which means there are five forms of existence of the author with different ideas. The ideas of each work refer to the keywords the author gets from the people's view of her. Through the production of this series of works, the writer truly contemplates the way she carries herself and the way others look at her. The experience of exploring the representation of existence is a journey for the writer. For now, the writer embodies the whole idea underlying the work. However, the author feels that the existence of a human being has no room for negation. For the writer thinks that the existence of a person will always grow and move within the human being herself.