Post #142041 by ZebraTiki on Fri, Feb 18, 2005 8:04 PM

At Yoko's last show at SFMOMA, she had a 'wishing tree' that consisted of a very large ficus tree, and next to it was a tray of string tags and golf pencils. The idea was that participants fill out their wish on the paper tags, then attach them to the tree. By the time I visited, the blank string tag supply had long since been depleted for the day (or hour?) and people had used scraps of paper and gum wrappers, whatever they had on them that they could write on & fold over a branch of the tree. A few of the wishes were very sweet, written by children, with heartbreakers like, "I wish mommy and daddy wouldn't fight so much," and "I wish I had a dog." The last two I read were written by adults, and they were, "I wish I had a hamburger," and "I wish Yoko's art was better."