McCartney Times

Each spring at the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, white notecards bearing wishes dangle from the branches of Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree for Washington DC.” Some years, they swallow up the dogwood, thick as heavy snow. Other years they simply decorate it, bright like a second bloom.

This year, for the first time since it was installed in 2007, the Hirshhorn’s wish tree will be partially virtual. Through the end of April, the museum, with Ono’s permission, is taking wishes posted to Instagram with the hashtag #WishTreeDC and transferring them to the tree. Then, in late summer or fall, the museum will mail them to Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower just outside Reykjavik, where the wishes will join more than a million others, compiled since Ono started making wish trees in the 1990s. The Hirshhorn has also invited dozens of artists — including Jenny Holzer, Charles Gaines, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Olafur Eliasson — to participate.

Among the contributing artists’ wishes are idealistic visions and impossible dreams. Byron Kim wishes people would be more concerned with unity than diversity. Huma Bhabha wishes to talk to animals. Ugo Rondinone wishes we could skip the 21st century completely.

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Source: Hirshhorn Museum is taking virtual wishes this year for Yoko Ono’s ‘Wish Tree’ – The Washington Post