Even the most sentimentally resistant strains of hipsters will have a hard time finding something to snark about with this one.
Starting August 2, Yoko Ono will take over a few living trees at One Colorado Square in Old Town Pasadena and turn them into receptors of unabashed optimism by inviting the public to, in her words:
“Make a wish.
Write it down on a piece of paper.
Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree.
Ask your friends to do the same.
Keep wishing
Until the branches are covered with wishes.”
Inspired by her childhood trips to temple, which would leave trees fluttering with hundreds of hopes, Ono has been staging similar installations throughout the world for a few decades. These particular wishes—along with those from around the world—will be collected and buried in capsules at the base of Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower, an illuminated column off the coast of Reykjavík, Iceland, that serves as a memorial to her late husband, John Lennon.
Making a wish, tying it to a tree and joining strangers in a collective energy of good vibes and meditation? Just try and snark on that. Impossible; it’s too beautiful.
