Word: ono
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...piece, dedicated to “The American People From Yoko Ono,” consists of broken pottery objects from all parts of the world. Ono urged the public to participate with her in reassembling the pieces as part of a healing and mending process after the tragic events of Sept...
...Keep wishing until you mend,” Ono said...
Once inside the lecture hall, Ono took a different tack as she openly criticized the U.S. government for their military actions. She said she felt that violence was not the answer...
...ways. She described each pot, one with no handle or top as being “art because you can’t use it” and another as “abstract expressionism in the making.” The audience laughed, but all were quiet when Ono pointed to a teapot that was in shambles, and said that it was “the World Trade Center, fully destroyed...
When he asked about her experiences being a woman in a male-dominated world and being and coming into a Western culture from a non-Western one, Ono answered that she felt twice removed, and that it was not easy to deal with the criticism of the media and public. She first jokingly remarked, “Well...I was one of two people responsible for Pearl Harbor,” alluding to her unique place in international pop culture as the woman accused of breaking up the Beatles. At the same time, Ono said, being an outsider...