WISH

LOCATION: Belfast, Ireland

Spanning an 11 acre site in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter, With 30,000 wooden stakes, 2,000 tonnes of soil, and 2,000 tonnes of sand, WISH, one of the largest realistic portraits the world has ever seen, was completed in four weeks. “Wish” was created for the 2013 Belfast International Festival at Queen's. The piece is a portrait of an anonymous local girl photographed by the artist in the process of making a pure and simple wish for the future. 

"Working at very large scales becomes a personal challenge but it also allows me to bring attention to important social issues, the size of the piece is intrinsic to the value of its message. Creativity is always applied in order to define an intervention made only with local materials, with no environmental impact, that work in harmony with the location." Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada

The land was donated by Titanic Quarter Limited and The Titanic Foundation.