Sari Wulandari1, Martinus Dwi Marianto2, Guntur3
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced people to minimize their activities and choose essential things to do. Apart from maintaining personal and environmental hygiene, mental health is also a priority. The RajutKejut Community is a group of female crocheters who yarn bombs in public spaces with crochet works. Within the pandemic conditions where activities are limited, they remain connected to each other by utilizing technological and digital advances, to share news and stories also support each other to ease anxiety and feelings of loneliness in facing pandemic. Through crocheting –which is an activity with meditative nuances– in a quarantine atmosphere, a space for reflection and contemplation is formed. This is essential to considered that beside preserving quality intake, the body's immunity can also be increased by maintaining mental health and happy feeling. The community held an activity to carry out yarn bombing in their respective neighborhoods and share stories about them. As a research question, how can bodily activities through craft raise awareness which then gives an understanding of one's existence in the midst of a pandemic situation. This study uses the phenomenological of perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty as analysis method which is bodily experiences could help people to comprehend their world, particularly in the current pandemic situation. At the end of the discussion, this research shows that the pandemic conditions encouraging people more to look back at the past, realize their existence in present, and project themselves to plan their next steps. This can be realized by carrying out bodily activities consciously, which bringing humans back to retrace their existence in the world as humans who have bodies that are able to ‘make’ in order to fulfill their needs, using their bodies, therefore that awareness of self and self-existence is awakened.
Keywords: covid-19, sanity, craftivism, rajutkejut
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