A wish is a deeply personal thing, often fleeting and silent. But sometimes, a wish is a collective endeavour, a bold and communal call for action.
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree installation is both. The piece – which Ono has staged more than 250 times in more than 35 countries – draws on a Japanese tradition that invites visitors at Buddhist temples to scribble their hopes and dreams onto paper tags and tie them to the branches of a tree. The wishes are left dangling amid the tree leaves, like budding fruit.
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