How To Make A Wish

Risograph print on paper, hand-waxed mulberry paper, vellum

8.5 x 11 in (poster), 6 x 6 in (mulberry), 6.25 x 6.25 in (envelope), 2.5 x 3.5 in (instructions)
2023

Meditating on the folding of a paper crane, 'How To Make A Wish' is a piece that explores the ideas of gradual change and how a process can be recognized as of equal value to a goal. It is in conversation with the methodical language of minimal instructionals and the wish mythos of the Japanese folk tradition of folding 1000 origami cranes. This piece invites viewers to the idea of both the finished crane and the constellation-like creases of the unfolded paper as valuable fulfillments of a wish.