Yoko decided upon July 4th as Grapefruit’s publication date,Īs the book was her personal Declaration of Independenceįrom the narrow definition of an artist at the time. And then sometimes later, the instructions themselves will disappear and be properly forgotten.” – Y.O. Instruction painting makes it possible to explore the invisible, the world beyond the existing concept of time and space. Idea is the air or sun, anybody can use it and fill themselves according to their own size and shape of his body…. “Idea” is what the artist gives, like a stone thrown into the water for ripples to be made. It was originally self-published in Japan in an edition of 500 copies on Junder the imprint of Wunternaum Press (which was resurrected in 2003 for Ono’s book Spare Room). Pre-dating her concise, profound and sometimes cryptically bizarre revelations on Twitter (on which she now has millions of followers) Yoko wrote her ‘instructional’ book – evocative of haiku – Grapefruit in 1952 at age nineteen. She thought of herself as a hybrid – feeling the cultural differences of being born and raised in Japan, and having lived in the USA. In 1961, Ono had presented a performance at Carnegie Recital Hall called A Grapefruit in The World of Park: A Piece for Strawberries and Violin. Yoko titled her book Grapefruit, a hybrid of lemon and orange. “When I was about 4 years old, I had all these ideas…Why don’t you just take one seed from a fruit and another seed from another fruit, and halve it and put it together and bury it? It might grow something really strange.” Yoko asked her playmate to write down this idea “and that’s the kind of thing that was going on, from the beginning: I had decided that whenever I get an idea I have to show it to the world.” She recalls standing in the garden with her mother. Yoko Ono had her first brilliant idea at age four. This is an excerpt from my Yoko Ono biography…Īn all-embracing look at Yoko Ono’s life and work, in stunning detail. © Madeline Bocaro, 2019. No part of this site may be reproduced in whole or in part in any manner without the permission of the copyright owner.
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