This project takes if only and considers itls earthly
opposite:
I wish.
The initial idea was to record wishes from strangers,
edit them together, and send the final recording over a wireless
transmitter to radio receivers mounted inside seashells. This
entire project is set in the community center of San Diego's
Mission Valley Library.
The thought was that people would enter the room, hear sounds from the shells, pick them up, and listen to the broadcast message from within -- a quiet roar from a sampling of humanity instead of that from the sea.
Interestingly,
many people declined to participate in the project, often with a very
strong negative response. Their
reasons were pretty much the same. "I'm
working," replied one antique store shopkeeper of an antique store. Another
merchant-type at a used record store said (with a pronounced measure
of suspicion), "I have nothing else to wish
for." The more puzzling responses included, "No thank you."
