If you visit the Serpentine Gallery right now, you'll see a group of
three small trees standing by the entrance, densely covered in luggage
labels. This is a version of Wish Tree, a Yoko Ono work that
invites passers-by to write their desires onto a tag and tie it to a
branch. At the end of the exhibition, Ono collects the tags and she
plans eventually to incorporate them in another artwork, as a
concentrated accumulation of human yearning.
To date, she says on her website, she's collected over 495,000 wishes
and she hopes that the work in which they're ultimately placed will
"give encouragement, inspiration and a sense of solidarity" to a world
filled with fear and confusion.
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