Wishing Factory
I am making my own shrine, a factory built of shredded documents which
recycles your desires into small objects you can take away with you.
In Japan, there are thousands of shrines, places where people can make
offerings to the spirits which inhabit all the things which envelop
every aspect of life. There are shrines for rivers and trees and rocks
and street crossings. for fishermen and travelers and the sick and
those seeking knowledge and for healthy babies and broken dolls, dead
cats and even penises, anything which is important for anyone, anything
whose spirits need to be recognized has a shrine where rituals are
repeated, and offerings are made.
I miss this culture of small rituals and thousands of repeated actions
which identify the characters who participate in the drama of our
everyday experience.
"make a wish , take a wish"
Welcome to the Wish Factory.
To make a wish, you write it on a piece of paper, and put the paper in
the black spirit-mouth.
Your wish wish will be transformed (recycled) into a guru-guru (good
luck charm) for someone else.
For your wish to take effect you must become the custodian of someone
else's wish. Please take a "guru-guru" containing someone else's wish
and take good care of it.
Your happiness is entrusted in others as their's is in you.
NEWS
upcoming:
/NY Flavors Ice Cream /
Feb. 19th and March 20th
99 Nassau St.
Miwa is presenting a new flavor 'Wall St.' of NY Flavors Ice Cream at the
opening and closing of the Free Store
recent:
/Unnatural Acts and other illicit thoughts about
nature/
Jan. 2-15, 2009
Broadway Gallery
Small quick show in a venerable downtown institution
/PET Project and NY Flavors Ice Cream /
Sept. 13 - Nov. 23rd 2008
Peekskill, NY
Miwa is installing some PETs on the piers and
will be serving a new flavor of NY Flavors Ice Cream for 2
days at the opening
/Curated by Tatiana Arocha/
Aug 2 - Sept 20, 2008
Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space
Artists employing a wide variety of media, from
AAI's Rotating Studio Program, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008. Curated by
Tatiana Arocha
/Summer Invitational/
Jul 10 - Aug 15, 2008
George Adams Gallery
A New York Flavors Ice Cream performance at the
opening of a show called "Cool" at the George Adams Gallery in
Chelsea. Miwa will be serving a new New York Flavored Ice Cream "34th
St Herald Square" (kimuchi !).
/Group Sculpture Exhibition/
Jul 9 - Aug 18, 2008
Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art
A group sculpture show. Miwa is showing two
glass domes with PETs inside.
/Recycled Materials/
May 4th to August 3rd 2008
Socrates Sculpture Park
Summer show all about recycled materials at Socrates.
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