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Plutonium Desert Garden Pin-up Swimsuit Beauty, Declassified
Plutonium Desert Garden Pin-up Swimsuit Beauty
2005
18 by 13 inches
Digital Painting
Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”.
There's a fair amount of cheesecake in the archive of the Hanford Declassified Project. Many of these photos have, strictly speaking, nothing to do with the bomb. And yet they do as Richland existed for plutonium production.
Legs here, legs there, sex sells the message, chases the spoonful of bitter with the sweet, and everyone knows it. For instance, in the archive is a photo of two men at Hanford, one of whom is pointing out to another a sign on security and sabotage prevention.
In the next photo the same men are now seated like pin-up girls with their trousers hiked to show their legs.
The photo on which the painting was based was intended to equate "explosive" with sexy. Eventually I found in the archive an image of the woman cropped from the photo and pasted upon a bounty of fireworks and dynamite. It's impossible to determine if the design was a promotion for fire safety, security, a 4th of July celebrarion or a big bang of a sale.
There was also another image of the same stack of fireworks.
I wonder which layout they went with.
The original image is below, the model perched on the dinig room table, its chairs shoved to the side of the room so as not to interfere with this intimate photography session.
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