GOD'S PLAYGROUND

God’s Playground grew from something I had been wondering about for years. If people really made it to Heaven, what would their lives be like once they got there? I grew up hearing powerful descriptions of Heaven and Hell. Heaven was always presented as a place of reward, peace, and perfection. But the older I got, the more I began to wonder what that actually meant for the people who arrived there.Would everything about them suddenly change? I began imagining that perhaps not very much would. The people in these works have already crossed over. They are spirits now, but they still seem to carry much of themselves with them. They gather, work, play, talk, celebrate, wander, rest, and go about their business much as they might have before. The difference is the setting. Their world is now the sky, the clouds, and that imagined space where Heaven and God are believed to reside. That idea gave me room to think about the afterlife in a way that was less solemn than the one I had been taught as a child. I was interested in the possibility that becoming a spirit might not erase personality, habit, humor, curiosity, or the ordinary routines that make us who we are. In God’s Playground, Heaven is not simply a destination. It is another place to live. And perhaps, even there, people are still very much themselves.