DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.:
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Description of Pictures: Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.
June 23, 2018 – September 3, 2018
A summer favorite, Ono’s interactive artwork “Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.” invites visitors to tie handwritten wishes to branches of a living Japanese dogwood tree in the museum’s sculpture garden. Starting June 23 through Labor Day weekend, the tree will “bloom” with thousands of hopes and ambitions, part of Ono’s global art project that has collected more than 1 million wishes from around the world.
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WISHTR_180629_01.JPG: $
WISHTR_180629_32.JPG: President who puts country over personal profit.
[Hmmm.... I think I wrote this one!]
WISHTR_180629_35.JPG: I wish for healing for my love Cararia
WISHTR_180629_39.JPG: Yoko Ono
Wish Tree for Washington, DC
2007
Yoko Ono is a prolific artist and has been a notable figure in the art world since the 1960s. Throughout her career, she had created innovative forms of music, performance, poetry, experimental film, and visual art. Her works are primarily intended to be transformative and experiential in nature and require viewer participation.
The Wish Tree series, begun in 1996, continues in this interactive tradition. Please use the paper and string provided in this box to write a wish and tie it to the tree. When the tree is full, the wishes will be collected and sent to the artist and then to the Peace Tower that Ono created in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Please be gentle when tying wishes to the tree.
WISHTR_180629_55.JPG: I wish for healing for my mom Ellen
WISHTR_180629_62.JPG: May all the separated families be reunited
WISHTR_180629_66.JPG: May our democracy find its moral compass
WISHTR_180629_69.JPG: I wish for my son to enjoy his first year of high school and to find something he loves to do
Love you Nolan
WISHTR_180629_73.JPG: May Trump understand and correct his destruction
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