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as the paint extends out over various images in the mural, so too did the bombs' waves of heat and impact ripple out over Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the surrounding areas.

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the mouth of the spray paint can, in the painters hand, sprays paint in a flash, “ripping” often just refers to doing something really well. By ripping the canvas in the mouth of his spray paint can, the artist is quickly and deftly applying the finishing touches to his piece, and damn is he doing it well.
If you look at the metaphorical themes in this song, a Hiroshima-tribute can be discerned from Qwel’s abrupt, violent imagery. “flash” and “ripped” evoke emotions of very abrupt and unsuspected termination. You can imagine the flash of the bombs as everything around you is ripped apart and torn away from you as you fade into oblivion, leaving nothing but cleared rubble..

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Upon the mural, purple circles are painted below another crimson piece of the painting. This line once again metaphorically references the bombings of Japan in World War II. Geishas in Japan often were associated with purple oil-painted umbrellas. Qwel is describing/envisioning a mistress strolling down the streets, twirling their umbrellas as the bombs explode above them, blotting out the sky in a burnt crimson tone.

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In an artistic sense, puddles of Pear Bubbles could represent a pearl background behind the mural, or within it. Some bubble-style graffiti background.

Something like this background, but Pear colored instead of blue/indigo.

If we continue with Qwel’s metaphorical representation of Hiroshima, pears are a fruit native to Japan. During the explosion of Hiroshima, the center of the blast radius is estimated to have been around 300,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That kind of heat would have instantly vaporized the pears around the blast, and at the edges left them in a melted heap.

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If you were standing in a building during the explosion, a hole blown into your wall would have appeared as a deep burgundy red due to the explosion in the sky.

Imagine looking out that hole to a burnt red sky, as heat and shockwaves slam towards you.

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In an art sense, Qwel is describing some grayish-colored streaks of paint upon the mural. Probably a second tone on the throw up. In a metaphorical sense, this could represent the blast marks on buildings in Hiroshima that weren’t completely destroyed. The “Black Squares” would refer to the soot and ash covered blocks of housing and building that were left in the aftermath. Hiroshima survivors have said that the aftermath looked like “shadows burned into the ground”

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the graffiti writer quickly adds little dashes and tinges of apple-green colored paint to finish off a portion of his mural. The hands dancing to slash thick apple, could potentially represent how quickly the U.S. moved to end the war in this “last section of the war in the Pacific”. by Bombing Hiroshima, aka the “last patch of green” in Japan, the U.S. effectively spurred a prompt surrender from Japan. The war was finished, as is this mural.

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The background of the mural Qwel is describing is clearly a black color. “blasted” referring to the act of spraying paint vigorously over a wall. However, this line is potentially also a metaphorical representation for the dark skies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombs had detonated. First hand account of the bombings:

The view where a moment before had been so bright and sunny was now dark and hazy. Through swirling dust I could barely discern a wooden column that had supported one comer of my house. It was leaning crazily and the roof sagged dangerously.
- Dr. Michihiko Hachiya

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this line represents the victims of Hiroshima; their last instances spent living underneath the explosions of the bombs above.

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Continuing the theme of metaphorically representing the tragedies at Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, the graff artist has portrayed a scene of shattered bodies and tortured individuals along the base of his painting, with images of the faces of the dead as the bombings occurred.

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