This is a painting by Yasuko Yamagata. She was just seventeen when the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima.Yamagata didn't do this painting until she was forty-six years old. It took her almost thirty years to be able to express the horrors that she saw that day. I admire her for this because I don't think I could've ever taken a paintbrush and relived one of the most horrific moments of my life the way she did. This image is very cold and unpleasant. Everything is done in very dark colors and this painting just gives a feeling of loneliness and devastation. Yamagata said that this is her depiction of the day after the bombing. In the painting there are corpses in a tank of water and the charred body of a mother holding her baby.This is just one of those things that I look at and I can't even imagine the way she must have felt. This painting leaves me speechless.