Ladder to heaven

This was in August 2015 after two setbacks. Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang used a balloon to lift a structure of fireworks resembling a ladder. He said this is a tribute to his grandmother.

Netflix "Sky Ladder" the art of Cai Guo-Qiang has a lot of other interesting things, a large roomful of taxidermy wolves forming a chaotic arc from floor to ceiling with other wolves tumbling around and running around on the floor, other large firework displays depicting war scenes of parachutes and cloud displays with sparkling fireworks, criss-crossing displays of colorful sorties, vertical colorful smoke displays, large fields of smoke with shimmering light inside them. 

In the Song dynasty about 1,000 years ago,

Quanzhou City struggled to develop.

So they invited a feng shui master to investigate. 

He said, "The city on top of the mountain nearby

is taller and shaped like a fishing net, 

and your city is shaped like a fish. 

This is an ominous sign." 

So they built two pagodas, 

in order to break this metaphorical net.

This shows that the city really believes in feng shui

and in the unseen world.

I grew up in this environment

so even in the artworks I made from a young age,

I was exploring a connection to this unseen power.