The Falling of Heaven 1 by Lauren Jacobs (2009)

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Description When I was a child I used to spend hours looking up at the sky through the blossoming branches of the cherry blossom tree that grew in my front yard. I was in awe of its beauty. I thought that was what people meant when they said that heaven was too beautiful for humans to comprehend. Subconsciously, I built up a complex mythology around the tree: in my heart the tree was sentient, an immortal monument, and a gateway to another world When the tree started dying, it was jarring and heartbreaking. Cracks started rupturing through the trunk and branches. One day in the spring, while the tree was in full bloom, one of the five main branches fell, leaving a huge chasm in the trunk. The tree continued to grow leaves and flowers, but one fourth of the leaves were always dead. The tree spread wide, then furled inward like a rotting leaf. Its death lasted for nearly a decade before my parents took it down.

Lauren Jacobs, Woodbridge, VA
Member Since July 2012
Artist Statement A life long lover of mythopoetic narrative, Lauren Jacobs uses surrealism to discuss links between body, emotion, wilderness and architecture in her art. In this discussion between person and place, she has collaborated often with environmental and community outreach programs, and has been involved in wilderness studies and urban permaculture for over a decade.

Jacobs received her Bachelors of Fine Art from Maryland Institute College of Art, after double majoring in sculpture and fiber art, and her Masters of Fine Art from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she concentrated in fiber sculpture. She currently teaches fine and applied art courses at the University of Mary Washington, Marymount University and Northern Virginia Community College. Her art has been in three dozen shows and counting.