This is one of the two paintings derived from the 596 project archival footage, depicting the moment after the explosion of China's first atomic bomb, where everything is lit up so brightly that the human eye cannot look directly but is recorded by the camera. After 0.1 seconds, everything on the screen burned and disappeared due to the colossal energy. The painting comes from gazing at a single frame of the footage that repeated pauses can only capture. This gaze is not only temporally and spatially impossible but also in terms of brightness so that the examination of the video becomes the only possibility. The seemingly monochromatic picture is not due to the type of film but to overexposure. The artist attempts to preserve a historical frame easily overlooked in the physical world through oil painting.
