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I Wish

This collection of artwork and the collective poem written by the group emerged from the viewing of ‘I Like Life a Lot’, an animated film made by Kati Macskassy in 1977, that uses artwork made by a group of Roma children in Hungary.

The dictionary explains a wish as something we do when we “feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that cannot or probably will not happen.”

There is a limitless-ness to wishing, a coming together of an unfettered imagination and our deep unconscious. Sometimes it is only in the act of putting it into words that we become aware of what it is that we wish for. Children’s wishes contain multitudes – of desires and aspirations. They give us a glimpse of the inner world of children. They also show us how the world enacts itself on children’s lives.

Will these wishes come true?