A point of departure in visual research as part of a 3-month residency with Residency Unlimited (New York), Wishful Thinking explores the affectual embodiment and disembodiment of Hope, of tossing the coin and making a wish. Curious to understand the slippage of hopefulness and hopelessness, Siahne walked around New York for three months making wishes, the only rule made was it had to be about a body of water, the entry point to wishful thinking. Next thing Siahne knew, Hope was everywhere they looked. Comprised of a series of paintings on hand-hammered aluminium puddles and video documentation of their wishes, Siahne attempts to ask the question of what does it mean to enact the gesture of hopefulness in a world where there is very little hope left to have. Tossing the coin over and over, Siahne is still waiting for their wishes.