Artists Note

During WW2, Japanese Kamikaze pilots would paint cherry blossom on the sides of their planes and even take branches of the trees with them when embarking on a suicide mission,…thus falling cherry petals came to represent the sacrifice of youth. Mono no aware (もののあわれ), literally "the pathos of things", is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō), or transience.

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