According to ancient Japanese legend, anyone with the patience to fold 1000 origami cranes will be granted a wish by the gods.

What the legend fails to mention are the late nights and fast food it apparently takes to get the job done if you happen to be on a strict deadline - as was Vivid designer Isabella Bain.

"We spent the last three or four weeks non-stop with a whole bunch of pizza and beer and a group of friends folding all the cranes," she says. "We really have lived the legend."

The cranes Bain and her friends - who have formed a collective called Ambient & Co - are made from recyclable plastic and lit from within. They are now suspended en masse in The Rocks forming a striking installation.

The 1000 cranes legend took hold of the popular imagination in Japan after a young Hiroshima victim began folding cranes in hospital. In one version of the story she reached 644 cranes before succumbing to leukaemia. Her classmates folded the remainder.