Wishing Well
(2025)micro-FM radio station
Skowhegan, Maine
Wishing Well was a participatory radio work I did with Lara Castro Lema: Over nine weeks we invited stories of unrequited love from the Skowhegan community, transformed them into sounds, and returned them in an intimate one-night transmission from the well. 60 people gathered on blankets in the nearby field, listening together in the spirit of shared romance.
well radio was a micro-FM radio station that operated from an old spring well on the grounds of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Reviving the well’s role as a site of gathering and gossip, it hosted improvised chats, readings, songs, and collective listening throughout the summer 2025.
radio performance documentation, wishing well (2025)
transmission from the well, people and radios on blankets
installation view, Wishing well (2025)
microphones, frogs
if i had to tell you about the nine weeks in skowhegan in just one hour ~~ I’d start with love radio from the wishing well ~~ when everyone laid on blankets ~ and listened to each others heartbreak stories ~ sounds of crushing on each other ~ through the little radios~~ and the moon went up ~ and there was so much love.