Adithi Roy

My Inspiration for this piece of work was Hernando R. Ocampo Dancing Mutants (1965). Ocampo was an abstract painter, he is a self-taught painter who first studied law in Letran College, creative writing at the Valenzuela School of Journalism and commerce at the Far Eastern University. He had a successful path in writing as a journalist and screenwriter before he started to teach himself how to paint and draw. His work mainly focused on flora and fauna inspired by the country side.

This painting use desaturated colours that are originally bright. It has very simple shapes but when seen in the right perspective they create the image that is now engraved into my memory. In the picture there are three bodies running away from a blur of red in the background. On the right of my paining, I have made people burning in the red side of the painting to show that many people were hurt because of the bomb in Hiroshima. 

The background of the painting acts like a war scene for the living being consumed by the vermillion red blood combining from the dead. The contrast of colours symbolises the disharmony in real life as well as the the pain and suffering felt by the people. As to symbolise hope and chances of purification I painted many teacups in the red section of the painting. Across the painting I choose the numbers 194. I wrote “19” to show the century the atomic bomb blasted.

The numbers “4” to show my age for when I first visited a tea plantation and the number ”2” to show the amount of time the atomic bomb was used. This event created the mass destruction and suffering for many people all around the world, yet because of these events there was a chance for us to show how much we had learnt from past and better ourselves for tranquility in the future.​