Bockscar was the B-29 that dropped the second atomic bomb on Japan in 1945. Jackson constructed the cockpit from charred wood and the view through the windscreen in Formica. The blackened wood evokes destruction, but Jackson says the pastel hues recall the sunsets in idealized 19th-century American landscape paintings. Formica was used for airplane propellers in World War II, and then in postwar suburban homes, where it often covered cheaper materials. Jackson calls it the “veneer that supports an illusion.”

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