{"id":62930,"date":"2026-06-22T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62930"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:59:49","slug":"how-yoko-onos-wish-tree-installation-in-los-angeles-is-helping-people-voice-their-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62930","title":{"rendered":"How Yoko Ono\u2019s Wish Tree installation in Los Angeles is helping people voice their hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"


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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.<\/p>\n

Yoko Ono\u2019s Wish Tree<\/em> installation is both. The piece \u2013 which Ono has staged more than 250 times in more than 35 countries \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

Ono\u2019s very first Wish Tree<\/em> \u2013 a young grapefruit tree planted in a wooden box \u2013 was shown in 1996 as part of her solo show at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery, a gallery in the Bergamot Station art centre in Santa Monica, California. After the exhibition closed, the gallery planted the tree on its property.<\/p>\n

It was so meaningful to Shoshana Wayne that when her gallery moved to Los Angeles\u2019 West Adams neighbourhood in 2018, she replanted the tree in her own backyard in Pacific Palisades. It was destroyed in last year\u2019s wildfire.<\/p>\n

Now, 30 years after its debut, a grove of Wish Trees is in bloom at The Broad museum in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

They appear to be much needed right now, given the voracious response from the public. The installation, Wish Trees for Los Angeles<\/em>, is part of Ono\u2019s solo exhibition, \u201cMusic of the Mind\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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