Very good.
Horizontal center crease.
Small closed tear last page right edge at fold.
Unobtrusive slight corner bumps and creasing.
Early mimeographed manifesto
written in response to a discussion after a performance at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Reprinted in the trade edition of Ono's book Grapefruit.
Scarce ephemeral remnant of Ono's art career from a pre John Lennon time.
"I think it is possible to see a chair as it is. But when you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your head did not burn or disappear.
The world of construction seems to be the most tangible, and therefore final. This made me nervous. I started to wonder if it were really so.
Isn’t a construction a beginning of a thing like a seed? Isn’t it a segment of a larger totality, like an elephant’s tail? Isn’t it something just about to emerge-not quite structured… like an unfinished church with a sky ceiling? Therefore, the following works:
A venus made of plastic, except that her head is to be imagined.
A paper ball and a marble book, except that the final version is the fusion of these two objects which come into existence only in your head.
A marble sphere (actually existing) which, in your head, gradually becomes a sharp come by the time it is extended to the far end of the room.
A garden covered with a thick marble instead of snow-but like snow, which is to be appreciated only when you uncover the marble coating.
One thousand needles: imagine threading them with a straight thread."
