"Tower A, Nagasaki"
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Medium: |
Watercolor and pigmented ink on gessoed board |
| Height: |
28 |
| Width: |
24 |
| Depth: |
.5 inches (unframed) |
| Status: |
In progress (October 2007) |
| Comments: |
This piece is still in underpainting. It is a free-association painting, and the tower is make-believe, or so I thought, until I saw a documentary about Nagasaki after the bomb, and there was a tower left standing which was identical in scale and size as this one. It was so eerie, so I have named my previoulsy unnamed "white stack" after the tower in Nagasaki.
The "Tower A" is a reference to the infamous Tower A (located in Nagasaki) from which the famous imperative "Tora Tora Tora" was broadcast. Some historians believe that Tower A was indeed the "target" of the Nagasaki bomb, as symbolic retaliation for the Pearl Harbor attack). I don't know if the tower in the video I saw (filmed the day after the attack, at "ground zero"), but one this is certain: it had to be very well built to withstand a direct hit the way this tower did. So I am making a leap of creative license, as it were, that the tower I saw in the documentary video is "Tower A." |
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