Bockscar 1 Painting

Bockscar is the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped that dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The plane was named for its pilot, Frederick C. Bock. The image on the nose of the plane was that of a box car with wings. It's a fitting image, a simple railroad car, used to carry ordinary freight transformed. The addition of wings reference the plan, and perhaps a higher power of angels. In the paintings Bockscar has come to symbolize the ultimate container object, a vessel that carries the product of human c, both great and terrible Bockscar and other cartoon images, many of sultry ladies, like Yellow Rose and Lady Luck were painted on the noses of B-29 Bombers in World War 2, childish marks on weapons of war. The images are an interesting glimpse into our psyche. Cartoons are used to humanize, or inject the element of character, or personality to a flying fortresses. In a similar manner, the crude, cartoon images have been placed on this multi-layered image derived from shredded posters on the city walls, comics, and typography and childhood memory in an attempt to give meaning and enable a connection. Note: On 9 August 1945, the day it dropped the bomb, Bockscar was piloted by piloted by the 393d Bombardment Squadron's commander, Major Charles W. Sweeney