No More Wishes
No More Wishes
24x24x27”
Art glass, clear glass, mirror, copper, solder, silver-plated pennies.
As presented for "Sunday Afternoon," Season 7, curated by Daniel Laskarin. Aug 16th 2026.
(Additional documentation at the University of Victoria, Visual Arts Department, on the Sculpture Pad at golden hour.)
Inspired by wishing wells, No More Wishes makes a tongue-in-cheek nod to the discontinuation of the penny, while also considering contemporary tensions between hopelessness and hope. The pennies are suspended across multiple layers of glass, with a mirror as the base. They appear to never reach the bottom, remaining in limbo.
The coins were submerged in exhausted photographic fixer, a darkroom chemical that removes unexposed light-sensitive silver halides from black-and-white photographic prints. The exhausted fixer deposits silver particles onto copper surfaces through a displacement reaction, producing thinly silver-plated (though tarnished) pennies. These coins carry the residue of images, just as coins tossed into a well are charged with images: wishes, prayers and visualizations for the future.