The Boneyard, Tucson Arizona.

Boneyard Tucson 2
Oil on Canvas
1210mm x 760mm
Melbourne
2010

Boneyard Tucson 1
Oil on Canvas
1210mm x 300mm
Melbourne
2010

Where do all the planes go when they die? The Boneyard, Tucson Arizona (officially known as 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group). US military aircraft are dumped here for scrap and spare parts. They are laid out with military precision. On first view I marveled at the pattern they made. This soon moved to being horrified to the waste of it all with the total original purchase price of the 4400 aircraft is estimated at 27 billion dollars. It dawned on me that the pattern of the assemblage had a resemblance to a Persian rug which given that some of these aircraft probably spend some of their lifetime bombing the Middle East there is some irony there.