Indonesia
E-Catalogue Eka Rahma Putra
TANTRI ING PRINTMAKING ART
By : Eka Rahma Putra
Parents’ habit of telling stories to their children nowadays is starting to fade in this era of gadgets. Many parents think that fairy tales for children are boring and out of date. Moreover, many parents use gadgets as a medium for diverting expression or replacing the role of parents in educating or fulfilling a child’s curiosity. Activities to satisfy children’s curiosity can be done through applications such as YouTube, or playing online games and so on. This has become a common tendency for parents to keep their children busy playing with their gadgets and not interfere with their parents’ work.
In fact, introducing technology too early to children can have negative impacts. Opium is one of them, quite a few children spend most of the day in front of gadgets without looking at their surroundings. Playing with gadgets for a long duration and continuously can lead children to become antisocial individuals (Pebriana, 2017). Antisocial causes children to withdraw from social life or feel more comfortable in an internet-based simulated world.
In response to the irony above, I tried to bring children’s stories/fairy tales back to this digital age through silk screen graphic art. In this case, the children’s fairy tales are taken from the Tantri Kamandaka manuscript which is also engraved on Jago Temple, Malang. The Tantri Kamandaka manuscript contains a series of fables where each story is related to other stories. The plot of a story in which there is a story seems to teach us to learn from every life in the environment around us. Apart from the unique plot, the theme of friendship in each story can stimulate children’s emotions. The animal figures used will also provoke a child’s huge imagination. By visualizing Tantri Kamandaka stories, it will be easier for children and adults to absorb the moral values contained therein.
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