Price : I started to work on this painting on the 6th August 2010. That was exactly 65 years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese town of Hiroshima. The exact number of people killed in this attack is unknown, but approximately 100,000 people lost their lives in the explosion shortly after 8 o’clock that morning or in the weeks and months to come. The world had a monster to deal with that still threatens all life on the planet. I wanted to make a memorial picture for the innocent victims of that day in 1945. But how should a painting made two generations later obtain that? My answers to that question is my painting. Even if white in some cultures is a colour of mourning, the colours of the painting as a whole are not those of sadness and mourning. My use of colours in this picture is guided by my wish to pay tribute to the creative potential the world lost that day. Now 65 years later the victims ought to be remembered by that.