MichaelJF <fri### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> >
> A technical wonderful image of a killing machine. But why did you came
> up with the idea to depict a machine killing people?

Good question. Honestly, I wasn't thinking of the subject in those terms, but
rather as simply a nice set of objects for a visual composition, to show off the
gleaming B-29 airplane itself. That plane with its shiny aluminum skin has
always fascinated me as a 'beautiful work of the aeronautical designer's art'
(while temporarily overlooking its actual use as a weapon of mass destruction,
particularly regarding Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) Then, as I worked on the scene,
I got the idea of adding flames to one of the engines-- for the juxtaposition of
colors more than anything else-- but which does imply a backstory that the
bomber(s) have recently been doing their dirty work. War creates strange and
ugly moral questions, which are always left unanswered at the time, due to
expediency and a developing numbness to horror.

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