Wish Tree (Yoko Ono art series)

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Yoko Ono's "Wish Trees for London" at the "Yoko Ono To The Light" exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, June 2012.

Wish Tree is an ongoing art installation series by Japanese artist Yoko Ono, started sometime after 1981,[1] in which a tree native to a site is planted under her direction. Viewers are usually invited to tie a written wish to the tree except during the winter months when a tree can be more vulnerable. Locations of the piece have included New York City, St. Louis, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Pasadena, and Palo Alto, California, Tokyo, Venice, Dublin, London, Exeter, England, and Finland. Her 1996 Wish Piece had the following instructions:

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Make a wish. Write it down on a piece of paper. Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree. Ask your friends to do the same. Keep wishing. Until the branches are covered with wishes.[2]

Installations have involved from one to 21 trees, and varieties included lemon trees, eucalyptus, and crepe myrtles. To honor wish writers' privacy, Ono claims she does not read the wishes, and collects them all to be buried at the base of the Imagine Peace Tower on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay in Iceland.[1] To date over 1 million wishes have been buried beneath the tower.

The series developed after an installation of one tree in Finland grew into a mini-forest, and Ono felt a continuing social need. She has also said:

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As a child in Japan, I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people’s wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.[1]

The fall 2010, Ono performed Voice Piece for Soprano, near the piece at MoMA as part of the museum's collections show.[3] Musician Pharrell Williams wrote on one in New York in 2013.[4]

Locations

Year City or country Institution or group, if known Title, if known Tree type, if known Other
Before 1996 Finland[1]
1996 Alicante, Valencia, Spain[5] pomegranate[6]
2002 San Francisco[7] SFMoMA
Exeter, England[8]
2003 Venice, Italy Peggy Guggenheim Collection Wish Tree Venice 2003. To Peggy with Love x Yoko olive tree[9] Permanent installation
2007 Washington, DC Hirshhorn Museum gardens Wish Tree for Washington, DC dogwood[10]
São Paulo[8]
2008 Pasadena, California One Colorado shopping center Wish Tree for Pasadena 21 crepe myrtle trees Permanently installed at Arlington Gardens, Pasadena
2009 Palo Alto, California Stanford University campus two lemon trees[11]
Tokyo[8]
2010 New York City[4] MoMA
Oberlin, Ohio[8] Oberlin College
2012 New York City Occupy Wall Street (Zuccotti Park) Wish Tree for Zuccotti Park Project altered to distribution of 10,000 postcards after fall 2011 police raid of park[12]
Dublin Wish Tree for Ireland[13]
London Serpentine Galleries Wish Tree for London
2012-13 Brooklyn, New York[14] Brooklyn Museum
2013 St. Louis[15] Saint Louis Art Museum
Sydney, Australia Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney Wish Tree for Sydney[16] six eucalyptus[17]
2016 Manhattan Beach, California Manhattan Beach Art Center Wish Tree for Manhattan Beach unknown Temporarily installed at Manhattan Beach, California
Unknown Orlando[18] and Tampa, Florida[19] Hard Rock Cafe locations

References

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