Wish (Edition no 1) is an online wishing tree commissioned by Folly, Lancaster in 2006. Wish (Edition no 2) was produced in 2007 and is in the ComputerFineArts Collection.

In this project we were interested in engaging communities online through contemplative and rewarding experiences; presenting an alternative to your average forum. Inspired by the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees in Hong Kong where visitors make a wish by writing it on some yellow paper and tying it to an orange. Then they try their luck at getting it to hang on one of the branches of the wishing tree. If you wish hangs in the tree it will come true, if not the myth claims that you have made your wish too greedy. In the case of the wishing tree we add weight and gravity to that which is weightless ethereal and of the mind.

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Wish (Edition no 2) online project on Computerfinearts.com