ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art announced that its new fall exhibitions, Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper, open to the public yesterday. Fallen is a large scale contemporary war memorial that recognizes the American troops killed in the Iraq war and occupation. Hammond honors each solider killed by inscribing their name on an individual and unique photograph of a leaf. Hammond worked meticulously to perfect the shape, color, thickness, and three-dimensionality of each photograph. Those leaves are then installed on a low pedestal as part of her ongoing installation. Hammond received her inspiration from a dream in 2004, one year after the initial invasion, and the work premiered in 2005 with 1,511 leaves. Hammond has since continued to add to the work of art, creating leaves for every additional solider that dies. Fallen will open at the Taubman with more then 4,200 leaves