Yoko Ono: WIsh Trees for Pasadena (2008)

Wish Trees for Pasadena is an art installation that consists of 21 living crape myrtle trees installed amongst the café tables and chairs in the Courtyard of One Colorado. Visitors are invited to write their wishes on pieces of paper and hang them on the tree branches. Yoko Onos Wish Tree for Pasadena is free and open to the public.

Wishes from Wish Trees for Pasadena will be joined with others from all over the world and placed in specially constructed capsules to be installed in the area surrounding Yoko Onos Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island, off the coast of Reykjavík, 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 Lennons 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

Facts about Yoko Onos Wish Trees for Pasadena
• 21 crape myrtle trees (Lagerstroemia)
• Planters are recycled wine barrels
• Yoko Onos artwork, 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 from around the world
• Trees will be donated to Arlington Garden, a community garden in Pasadena following the installation


Presented in collaboration with the Armory Center for the Arts and One Colorado.

2 Aug 2008 - 9 Nov 2008
Yoko Ono: Wish Trees for Pasadena
One Colorado, 24 E Union St, Pasadena, CA 91103
For further information call 626.792.5101 extn. 116
www.onecolorado.com

www.IMAGINEPEACE.com

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[seaweed2007]

Such a thoughtful piece, Yoko. May your gifts continue to grow long after we all are gone. Love to you, always.

[Beatleologist]

What a nice thing for you to do Yoko, John would be so proud.

[ArlanBerglas]

Let's create wish trees all over the world. We can promote this concept at the World Peace One events this summer 2011 - 3.5 Billion viewers expected!

[senjatseth]

I added a wish in Brussels ... the installation of trees standing in coffins was one of the most powerful pieces I have ever experienced

[caritol14]

te amo Yoko

[wildreams]

Actually this is a traditional wish tree that is very common in japan, but thoughtful and meaningful nevertheless.

[selenio999]

cool art

[bartrichbarton]

sogroovy

[kathy07002]

This is so beautiful, Yoko. I love it..You are a genius to think of the idea...Love and Peace to you, From, Kathy ps It would be lovely to have a wish tree in Strawberry Fields in Central Park and perhaps one here in Bayonne NJ where I live, maybe by the Arts Factory...they had a Beatlefest recently, a 14 hour song marathon of every song from A to Z. I sang there...there was an art show I read in a college in Jersey City, one town north of mine...I would love to see your art show..

[purpletreeband]

You're a genius, Yoko :) i ii iii

[Styxhexenhammer3]

It's real love between Yoko and John!