My inspiration for this artwork was Hernando R. Ocampo’s Dancing Mutants (1965). Ocampo based his painting on the atomic bombs in Japan in WW2. I chose it because I liked the hidden figure in the painting and also the colours (red and green) created a story that you couldn't find if you only glanced at it and not looked at it carefully and that is why I was drawing to it and picked it to inspire my artwork. The numbers in my art were each chosen for a different reason. To make an atomic bomb, the element uranium has to be used and uranium’s atomic number is 92, which is one of the numbers that I chose. After doing some research, I found out that 63% of all buildings in Hiroshima were destroyed during the

bombings and that was the second number I used 63. 33 was the last number I chose and that 33 symbolises the number of cities listed that could have been attacked. A hidden number is 44 which came from how many circles are in the painting because I wanted to include an aspect of having hidden meanings. The colours that I chose were mainly green, pink and red because those were the colours similar to the original painting and also resembling the colours of fire and forest.I made it messy to show that the atomic bomb in WW2 was also messy and that is showed by it being scattered and overlapping the colours and shapes. The numbers are outlined in a contrasting colour to imitate it trying to be contained. A challenge I faced was to make it messy and unorganised but at the same time clear and when I was outlining the numbers, the orange was slightly too watery when I was painting around it. I found the thing to be most successful was the overlapping of shape.