Matt Noonan - Boscar

Matthew Day Jackson is an American born in 1974 who created the piece the "Bockscar".  The Museam Of Fine Arts received this piece in 2010 shortly after it was made. This represents the cockpit of the plane, a B-29,  that dropped the second atomic bomb on Japan in 1949.  It is made out of burned wood and Formica on wood panel.  The blackened wood shows destruction but Jackson says the pastel hues recall the sunset that shows the American landscape.  The sunset as the background is very interesting.  I wonder what the pilot actually saw when he was flying over Japan ready to drop the bomb.  Did he see a sunset? It makes this peice of art all that more interesting and unique. Formica was used for airplane propellers in World War II.  Jackson calls it "veneer that supports an illusion". There is a lot of attention to detail in the cockpit, you can see the wires, controls and steering wheel clearly in this piece of art.  I never really thought of something like the "Bockscar" being a piece of art.  When I think of art I think of a painting or a sketch.  The Bockscar brightened my view of art