Falling of Heaven (Series in Progress)

2010 to Present

In my parents’ front yard there was a cherry blossom tree, and when I was little I used to look up at the sky through the blossoming branches and think that was what heaven looked like. When the tree started dying, losing branches and furling inward like a rotting leaf, its mortality seemed impossible to me. It wasn't just the death of a tree, it was the death of an architectural element of my childhood.

I received this book as part of the altered book project, and have been painting over every page with a painting. No paintings will be removed or added later. Each painting is like a diary entry, or like a sketchbook page. This will amount to 112 paintings in all, including the front and back cover.

Acrylic on paper, each page 8.5 inches high by 6 inches wide