100 lottery tickets, each one with a hope that's been lost
About the piece
100 Lost Hopes is an interactive installation. It consists of 100 fake lottery tickets taped to a wall, each one showing a hope that someone has lost. Viewers are invited to print their own lottery ticket and replace one that's on the wall.
100 Lost Hopes, 2025 | Arts 14C in Jersey City
Computer setup with instructions
Thermal printer creates the ticket
New ticket replaces one of the 100 hopes on the wall
Setup & Highlights
The Setup
To participate, a user would use a computer set up in front of the exhibit. Following the prompts, they would print their own ticket. They remove a ticket from the wall, replacing it with their own.
Screen 1 - Have you every lost hope?
Screen 2 - Pick your lucky number
Screen 3 - Print ticket or create another
Highlights
A person who just wrote their name
Lost hopes from kids:
"Yes, in school all the time."
"I lost my ice cream."
"I've lost hope in never having a sleepover."
"When I was stuck in the rain."
"When I did not get the hang of the video game."
How people took down the lost hopes. Sometimes it was one that they hated. Sometimes it was one that they felt for, and did a ritual of wishing them luck. But everyone took it seriously to remove something from the wall.
People who refused the prompt altogether, and declared that hope was never lost for them... And people who were annoyed at those for people refusing the prompt.
Discarded lost hopes
"I lost hope once in that a certain person would turn back to me and it was of the most liberating losses in my life. I don't wait for people to turn back if they turned away."
