What does it mean to re-make history? My approach with these two works (Hiroshima and Red Hiroshima) is to bring an image of heavy historical significance to life through the materiality of painting. The image is one of the first photographs taken after the Hiroshima bombing in 1945, where the United States dropped one of the two nuclear bombs that were ever used on a human population. This act of violence has such an intense historical significance. The United States, after succeeding on the European war-front, committed an act of such atrocity that the United States became the very evil that it was supposedly fighting. There is a belief that using nuclear bombs on Japan was a necessary end to World War II, but this is not true and continues to be an idea that is perpetuated through propaganda and American exceptionalism. Nuclear weapons and their proliferation has been one of the greatest threats that mankind as posed against itself in modern times. The fact that the United States used a nuclear weapon at all is truly a horrifying prospect. I chose to use this image because I believe it is extremely important for all of humanity to recognize and reflect upon these historical moments, what they mean, and how might we go forward without losing a sense of what came before.