Wish Fishing

By Pol Clarissou

Wish Fishing is a browser-based divination experience: it lets you type a question and cast it in a starlit pool, and brings back an answer spelled out in a series symbolic unicode glyphs. Each glyphs has meanings suggested in a glossary that is also displayed on the page, but the final interpretation of the whole answer is left to the person who asked the question, by looking for connections between the glyphs and with the context of the question, much like tarot cards only give you tangential answers for you to draw meaning from. When the question is cast onto the pool, you can catch glimpses of other questions that have been asked by other people who went there before. Once you ask your own question, it will join the others in the pool — like an ether of all the questions that float around in everyone’s mind, connecting us through our uncertainties.

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