My inspiration is from the artwork Boschbrand (Forest Fire) by an Indonesian artits, Raden Saleh during 1849. Saleh was born in Semarang to a Javanese family in a privileged household, later he moved to Europe was taught by the Belgian artist A.J Payen (Antoine Payne the Younger) who persuaded the colonial government of the Netherlands to send Radeon Saleh to the Netherlands to study art. I was amazed by the realism and colours that Saleh chose for this artwork and as I learned more about this painting I found more connections between me and the painting. When looking at the painting it gives me a sense of danger and destruction showing viewers what the painting is about. The reason why I chose this painting because its about wildfires which is related to me because I’m from Australia and lately there have been wildfires that have been spread around the outback’s. The background colour represents the painting with the green as the nature and trees as it slowly goes into a deep brown-ish red. If you can see most of the painting is empty as to relate to the distruction the fires can cause leaving only emptiness. The numbers going down is 5574 which represents the number of wildfire deaths from January to September during 2024 while the numbers on the far left side is the number of tigers that died due to wildfires. This painting are the effects of global warming and can lead to more wildfires and extinction of animals. This can be the reality of wildlife and affects we can caused on it.