Sky Windows
©1998 Isaac Falconer/Dr. Saku Gunasegaram
31" x 23" acrylics, paper board, and ink on hand-made rice paper.   


COMMISSIONED BY:  M. Anne Blackwood M.D. (now Anne Blackwood-Chirchir M.D.) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Anne (a professional colleague of mine who went on to become a close and valued friend during my time at
 the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics)
listened patiently to my sad tale:  Of being commissioned to paint the chapel ceiling at
St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Ardmore, Pennsylvania so that it would cause the viewer
to "look up at the ceiling" (a work completed on January  1, 1997)
~then having the excruciating experience of the ceiling being painted over.  
She commissioned me to paint this in a way that healed and touched me deeply.

Restoration of the ceiling to its original condition of January 1, 1997 is currently (2005) being attempted by curator Ross Lance Mitchell
~at least that was the most recent conversation.

This work was exhibited at the Da Vinci Art Alliance All-Member All-Media Exhibition
 at the gallery at 704 Catherine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (in May-June 1999)