The artwork consists of two individuals; a barefooted man standing in front of a woman

extending his right arm with a bolo in his hand barricading the woman’s private parts that is covered with
long pink sheets while his left arm extends blocking the chest part of the woman that is covered with long
white sheets. The woman who also seems to be barefooted as well, is trying to cover her body with the
sheets while leaning in to the man. They were both looking in the same direction; the man looked tense
while holding his bolo but his guard was up while protecting the woman; the woman on the other hand,
looked worried, and afraid while covering herself up. They are placed in the center of the artwork which
had put a great emphasis on these two individuals that has a background of a wooden house; there is a
small altar placed on the left side of the house with two candles on both sides, a small wooden bed that
has white sheets and messy clothes all over the bed and a wooden floor that seems to have a Japanese
military hat lying on the floor near at the man’s barefoot. The shapes are distributed in a manner of
disorder and disturbance; the messy clothes aren’t organized, and the wooden bed is full of random stuff.
The noticeable use of the elements of arts in this artwork is the use of color value, which is the brightness
and darkness on the altar side and the bed side of the artwork. The artist used brighter colors on the altar
and used darker colors on the bed side of the artwork, which displays that there is light coming from a
door or an opening where the man and the woman were looking. Looking at the artwork, it seems that the
man holding a bolo is protecting the woman who might be his wife or daughter from an unseen Japanese
soldier because of a Japanese military cap lying on the floor, their facial expression tells that the soldier is
a dangerous person to deal with, judging from the woman who is trying to cover her body with sheets, the
intention of the unseen Japanese soldier is to rape her. The background of the artwork tells us that they are
Filipino and we know that the Philippines were colonized by Japan during World War 2. The artist
conveys the message of the lives and suffering of Filipina women during the World War 2; it depicts the
Filipino’s experiences under the Japanese ruling which are Filipina women becoming a victim of rape by
Japanese soldiers, slaughtering anyone who might get in their way. This artwork displays how Filipino’s
are protective of their own daughters, wife, or sisters because of the sufferings that they encounter on
these soldiers, which sends very powerful emotions of how the pain, tragedy and death occurred on those
historical times. It depicts a perspective about the ordinary life of a Filipino experiencing cruelty under
Japanese soldiers. That is why this artwork has expressive qualities which makes it qualified under the
esthetic theory of emotionalism.