Preserving Candi Kidal’s Relief to Sustain a Cultural Heritage Site using ATUMICS Approach

Abstract

Candi Kidal represents a cultural heritage structure that should be preserved. This temple structure is similar to the other temples in that it contains a foot section (Bhurloka), a body part (Bhuvarloka), and a summit portion (Swarloka). Some reliefs are read on the body using the Prasawya technique, and a story about the loyalty of a child named Garudeya to his mother, Winata, will appear. The story of a son freeing his mother from slavery is analogous to the Indonesian people's battle for freedom from Dutch colonialism. This study intends to introduce Garudeya's intangible reliefs at Candi Kidal and explain the moral message they embody. The Garudeya relief found in the Candi Kidal will be re-displayed on a sitting lamp as part of this research. The author did a site survey, interviews, questionnaires, and a literature review in this study. The author used the ATUMICS approach to create a prototype in the form of a sitting lamp, which aids in transforming traditions into contemporary contexts. The main focus of this study is on the concept of form, which is the transformation of Candi Kidal's silhouette into the shape of a sitting lamp. Furthermore, the lithophane technique, which converts a photograph into a 3D relief, is used on the body of the sitting lamp. As a result, the relief seen on Candi Kidal's body can be reproduced on the sitting lamp's body.