Blue is a colour that visually defines Ugo Untoro’s life, it captures the emotional aspect of his life, as one filled with daily conflicts and struggles. A tension that has affected the way he relates to things that he loves, including the colour blue, a colour he loves yet the feeling makes him uncomfortable.Horses are animals that frequently show up in Untoro’s paintings. The artist’s adoration for the animals stem from them being symbols of freedom. The figures you see in the painting have both features of a human and that of a horse, which reflect our human-selves as creators and architects of our own fate, and creatures that once only existed in the wild, are now commonly domesticated. The melding of both species stand as visual metaphors for the lives that we have created for ourselves, yet have ultimately become captives of.