Memories & Wishes

Memories & Wishes is a series of collaborative installations created in local community settings - schools, work places, community centers - to bring into focus the inter-connected and inter-dependent nature of all things.
We begin  by bringing the community together to design and create a tree like structure in an appropriate form - 2 D or 3 D  - and media depending on the available resources, time and location. Participants then add their memories and wishes to the tree.
The installations are inspired by the 'Tree of Life' motif present in most cultures, initiatives by artists like Yoko Ono's Wishing Tree project and by my mentor, Mary Catherine Bateson's work who wrote: 

“…a belief that multiple small spheres of personal experience both echo and enable events shared more widely, expressions of moments in a world in which we now know that no microcosm is completely separate, no tide pool, no forest, no nation.”

'With a Daughter's Eye: Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.