What is your reaction to the following poem called PAINTING UNTIL IT BECOMES MARBLE by Yoko Ono


Smalls , Saturday, 7th of August 2010 06:41:54 PM

Cut out and hang a painting, design, a photo-
graph, or a writing 
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(printed or otherwise), that
you like.
Let visitors cut out 
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their favorite parts and take
them.
For example, if the visitor 
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likes red, let him take
all the red parts.
Ask many visitors to 
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cut out their favorite parts
until the whole thing is gone.
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/>Also, instead of cutting the parts out, you may
ask them to paint 
black ink over them.
In the case of writngs, you ask the visitor to 
cut
out his favouite letter or word.
 
 
 
 
 

BunniCakez , Sunday, 8th of August 2010 09:02:56 AM

I like it. It is a poem about art, art about art, like two  
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mirrors and a paradox. I love the way she uses a physical action - ''let  
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visitors cut out their favourite parts'' - to symbolise the metaphorical  
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action of interpretation. Also, the way that the visitors take, take take  
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from the art until nothing is left. like after too much viewing, the art  
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is somehow void? It is a very good poem: it raises a lot of questions.  
 
 
 
 
 

Bub , Monday, 9th of August 2010 06:24:46 AM

I think as per usual Ono is asking everyone else to do her  
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work, and having grown up with jules, I would say she is still just  
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Snickers , Tuesday, 10th of August 2010 04:31:33 AM

I think I would cut her hand off...whichever hand she writes  
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with, that is.  
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Buttercup , Wednesday, 11th of August 2010 03:27:42 PM

I think her drug dealer was having a 50 percent off sale  
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chicken scratch* , Thursday, 12th of August 2010 07:19:15 PM

I like it.  
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