Earlier this week, an exhibition spanning over five decades of Yoko Ono's work opened at the Serpentine Gallery. The exhibits, which include films, photographs and installations, demonstrate her significance as a pioneer of conceptual art.
Viewers are invited to enter and explore AMAZE, a perspex maze. There is a series of identical photographs, each representing different people and events in her life from her birth to an imaginary end. CUT PIECE 1964 is a film in which Yoko sits, passive, vulnerable, allowing members of her audience to come one by one and gradually cut her clothes to pieces with a scissors. She remakes CUT PIECE in 2003, now aged 70 and wearing an elegant long black dress.
I found the exhibit of footprints on a sheet of paper particularly poignant. Yoko explains that she and John Lennon made these footprints together. More recently she hung the piece vertically on a wall and realised that "We were walking to the sky".
With thoughts of Yoko and John still in my mind, I was out looking at t-shirts and vests. Icon and band tops are key pieces this season in the "festival" look. Dolce and Gabbana have some beautiful icon t-shirts but there are many to be found in the High Street shops. I came upon this John Lennon vest at H&M. With an image taken from a Goldblatt photograph and a Yoko Ono Lennon copyright inscription, this was somehow a rather special vest.
With thoughts of Yoko and John still in my mind, I was out looking at t-shirts and vests. Icon and band tops are key pieces this season in the "festival" look. Dolce and Gabbana have some beautiful icon t-shirts but there are many to be found in the High Street shops. I came upon this John Lennon vest at H&M. With an image taken from a Goldblatt photograph and a Yoko Ono Lennon copyright inscription, this was somehow a rather special vest.
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