My inspiration for this piece was the painting ‘Forest Fire’ by Raden Saleh. The painting was painted in 1849 and the original name for it was Boschebrand which translates to forest fire. Raden Saleh was considered to be the first “modern” artist from Indonesia. The piece depicts multiple animals on the edge of a cliff as a wildfire dominates the  majority of the canvas. The piece is painted very intricately, showing the true emotions of every animal. In the piece I created, I included the numbers 2018 (in roman numerals), 0404, 13 and 7. The number ‘0404’ represents isolation and death. ‘0’ meaning to be isolated and ‘4’, which sounds like death in Chinese (where I’m from). I chose these numbers as I felt the animals would feel the same. I chose 2018 because that was the year my family moved to Singapore. I chose this because before I lived in Singapore, I lived in South Africa. There I felt isolated from the world. Unlike the animals, I felt happy being isolated and I just felt less overwhelmed by everything that was happening around the world. That's why I decided to relate this piece to my life before we moved to Singapore. I chose the number 13 to represent one of my favourite stores in Singapore. It’s called the African market and as soon as I go there, a sense of my childhood floods back into my memory. In the words “African Market” there are a total of 13 letters which is why I chose to use it. I used it twice to represent that although I don't go there often, it tends to play a big role in my life. The last number I used was 7 to show the number of animals that were painted in the painting. I decided to put the 7 in the middle to represent how the animals were right in the middle of the piece that Saleh painted. For the squares in the bottom right corner, I used colours of the South African flag. At the top of the piece I used vibrant colours of red, yellow and orange to create an abstract fire. For the roman numerals, I tried to make each layer go darker and darker to show the year 2018 slowly fade-in away as time passes. Lastly, I blended the top right corner with grey to show the ashes of the forest after the devastation of the fire. My work is a replication of the emotions of those who have suffered, those who fought their own battles and those who needed it most.