Go Fig-ure

This 2023 artwork by Warrick Dicken aka MrWarricks_Creations titled ‘Go Fig-ure’ has been produced using acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

Size: 253mm (H) x 253mm (W) x 35mm(D)

Note: In Hong Kong, there’s a widely held belief that spirits live in the fig trees, and two trees in particular were known as wishing trees. At new year and other festival times, people used to write their wishes on red or gold paper, tie them to a piece of string and tie the other end to an orange, which would then be thrown into the tree. If the wish got stuck in the tree, it was supposed to come true, and the higher the branch it stuck to, the more likely it was that the wish would be granted. Unfortunately in 2005 the weight of all the wishes caused a branch to break off and injure two people, so the government banned the practice and replaced the trees with heavy duty fakes.