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Wishes

Community Art (2021)

Run Ze Feng

When a thousand blessing ribbons wove a trembling collective consciousness above Vanke Neighborhood, this maiden public art collaboration with the HCRC and property services silently melted social distances frozen during the pandemic. Diverging from solitary prayers tied to temple trees, the act of "wishing for others" compelled residents beyond their iron-clad doors: children stretched on tiptoe to fasten prayers for stray cats, a father guided his daughter’s hand to scratch a vertical prayer—”Grandma, heal soon”—on a 5mm silk ribbon, while an elder skeptic questioning "free care" finally raised a thumb in approval. These three tableaux pierced the fog of modern communal distrust. Formerly anonymous passers-by exchanged names upon recognizing handwriting on ribbons; graphic designers, florists, and lawyers emerged from behind the fluttering knots to become co-creators of the Community Art Museum. Those tremulous colored grids, swaying in the wind, became the primordial nest where dormant seeds of resident autonomy began to hatch.

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