Kim Dong Hwa's Eisner-nominated "Color" trilogy, The Color of Earth, The Color of Water, and The Color of Heaven, follows the life of Ehwa, a young girl in a rural Korean village, as she grows from childhood to adulthood. According to Kim, he began writing The Color of Earth after sitting with his sick mother and thinking about what she might have looked like over the years, tracing her life back to her youth. The series focuses heavily on Ehwa's sexual awakening, from a child's curiosity to the confusion of young adulthood, as well as her relationship with her widowed mother.