Explaining on Instagram: "In 2015, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang turned the sky into his canvas with a breathtaking creation — the Sky Ladder. 🎇 He launched a 1,650-foot-tall ladder made of fireworks, connected by a wire frame and filled with rockets that blazed upward, glowing like a staircase to the heavens. The display lit up the night over his hometown of Quanzhou, China, as a tribute to his late grandmother, who had always dreamed of seeing him “reach the sky.” 🌙🔥 It lasted just minutes,

𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 | 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 | 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 on Instagram: "in 2015, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang created a 1,650-foot (502-meter) "Sky Ladder" of fireworks as a tribute to his grandmother. The project, which had failed multiple times in the past, was successfully launched from Quanzhou and was witnessed by his 100-year-old grandmother via a FaceTime call before she passed away a month later. The artist: Cai Guo-Qiang is a world-renowned "explosive artist" known for his use of fire