{"id":25624,"date":"2010-07-21T16:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i-wish-your-wish-would-fall-off-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2010-07-21T16:09:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T16:09:15","slug":"i-wish-your-wish-would-fall-off-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i-wish-your-wish-would-fall-off-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"I Wish Your Wish (Would Fall Off) | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, the New York Times <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/22\/arts\/design\/22neuen.html?_r=1\">highlighted the work<\/a> of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander. The article focused in part on her piece &ldquo;I Wish Your Wish&rdquo;, shown below.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/901da_NEUEN-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>The conceit of the piece is rather lovely. As described in the article, the piece &ldquo;is derived from a tradition popular among pilgrims to the Church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim in Bahia, who bind ribbons to their wrists or the church&rsquo;s front gate in the belief that when the ribbons fall off or disintegrate, their wishes will be granted.&rdquo; I had the pleasure of seeing this piece at the 2008 Carnegie International, and being completely charmed, I found a wish I loved, picked the ribbon, and tied it on.<\/p><p>Two years ago.<\/p><p>And that damned wish will just not fall off:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/901da_i_wish_your_wish.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/901da_i_wish_your_wish.png\" alt=\"i_wish_your_wish\" width=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5143\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>I&rsquo;m assuming that the pilgrims in Bahia did not use modern synthetic materials, but sadly, Neuenschwander did. <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZSWqX0ofBeZDqm1BhnUIiSL5EI4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/901da_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZSWqX0ofBeZDqm1BhnUIiSL5EI4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/901da_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/901da_n3LVSV9QfMg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/901da_VBnxHkbfwhI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, the New York Times highlighted the work of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander. The article focused in part on her piece &ldquo;I Wish Your Wish&rdquo;, shown below.The conceit of the piece is rather lovely. As described in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i-wish-your-wish-would-fall-off-cosmic-variance.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}