Last week, Yoko Ono premiered her latest Wish Tree for Pasadena installaton. More than 10,000 people visited the One Colorado Courtyard in the first week. The installation began with 21 crape myrtles at the center of this elegant art installation and is now covered in thousands of wish tags expressing hopes for the future from people who have come to visit the work. More wishes are being added at the rate of around 1,200 per day, with 5,000 over the weekend.
Wishes from Wish Tree for Pasadena will be joined with others from around the world and placed in specially constructed capsules to be installed in the area surrounding Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island, off the coast of ReykjavÃk, Iceland. The artwork is dedicated to the memory of John Lennon. The tower, a column of light emanating from a stone base with a radius of about 10 meters, is lit for two months each year starting on October 9, John Lennon’s birthday, and ending on December 9, the anniversary of his death. The artwork is also lit at certain other special times during the year. For more information, visit www.imaginepeace.com
Yoko Ono’s influence for Wish Tree is connected to her early childhood experiences in Japan: “As a child, I used to go to a temple and buy a printed paper wish sold at the temple and tie it around the branch of a bush. Bushes in temple courtyards were always filled with people’s wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar,” she said.
Once wishes are removed from the trees in November, the 21 crape myrtles, planted in recycled wine barrels, will be donated to the Arlington Garden, a community garden in Pasadena.
Wish Tree has been presented around the world, including the city of Detroit; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Lonja del Pescado, Alicante, Spain; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Samsung Museum, Seoul; the Venice Biennale exhibition; and numerous other venues. Hundreds of thousands of wishes have been collected worldwide.
Wish Tree for Pasadena is on view in the One Colorado Courtyard, located in Old Pasadena in the block bounded by Colorado Boulevard, Fair Oaks, Union and DeLacey. www.onecolorado.com
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