Mirage
Mirage reflects on August 6th 1945, the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The first part represents an infant’s close-up view of things, with touchable objects, bright colours and nursery rhyme-type attempts at understanding a comfortable world. The second part is black and white; it represents the destruction of Hiroshima with photographs of the obliterated city and descriptions by survivors. Both views of that day are in a sense a mirage: one too limited to be real and the other too awful to be real.