There was even one response that completely changed the fabric of the project for me personally.

It came from a woman who simply asked, "What is your wish?"

I thought for a minute, reached around deep inside and pulled out, "My father," choking back a surprise flood of tears, "I wish I could speak with my father again." 

The woman looked at me for a brief moment from across the gulf that separates space, time, and strangers, leaned across the counter and hugged me for a moment.

Loss and vulnerability, the pain and condition that makes us all human, joined us for an instant and I was overwhelmed.  

I initially thought this program was about wishes we all make, about things we want for ourselves and possibly for a greater good.  I now see this work as being about all that we have in common: Love, Loss, Desire, Fear, Hope, and Dreams -- Humanity.

During the coming year I will continue to compile wishes through I Wish section of this website and during exhibitions in London, Bucharest, Athens, Sophia, Tirana.

Pacific Beach, San Diego
September 19, 2003