They arrive fresh each year, sure as the pastel petals themselves, slipping in among the tourists. They come to create something permanent out of something passing. Five artists explain why D.C.’s cherry blossoms remain an enduring source of inspiration.
They arrive fresh each year, sure as the pastel petals themselves. They slip in quietly among the tourists and selfie takers. They sidestep marriage proposals and toddlers kiboshing family portrait sessions. They come with their sketchbooks and easels and clickety-click-click film cameras.. They come to create something permanent out of something passing. They come because even though the scene is so thoroughly known — and done and crowded and, frankly, kind of a nuisance — they can’t resist.
his hometown’s signature aesthetics. He began incorporating D.C. iconography — including the monuments — into his art. But it wasn’t until he lost a series of loved ones in the District that the cherry blossoms and their significance came into focus. He was commissioned for a billboard and drew an astronaut in a bed of flowers reaching for, of all the petals, a cherry blossom. “I named that piece ‘Missing Home From Paradise … What a Fool,’” he says. “This piece meant I wanted to come home.
For Craigie-Marshall, her appreciation and love for the cherry blossoms have grown into something much bigger than a fond memory. “I think beyond the beauty, we need to remember that this really was a gift from Japan,” she says about the origin of the trees’ arrival in Washington and their significance as a symbol of cooperation across cultures. “We need to remember the culture and the people behind it.
So she went big, creating a larger-than-life meditation on a fragment of nature. “I had to enlarge them so much,” she says, “and that’s when you start to see the spectacular array of the individual petals and how they all cluster together. That’s what excites me.”
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