Journaling with Yoko Ono
Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning
This weekend’s prompt draws from the work of Yoko Ono. In her book Grapefruit, Ono offers simple, poetic instructions that blur the line between art and life. They invite us not to understand, but to experience.
A PAINTING TO SEE THE SKY III
See the sky between a woman’s thighs.
See the sky between your own thighs.
See the sky through your belongings
by making holes in them.
i. e. pants, jacket, shirt, stockings, etc.
1962 autumn
EARTH PIECE
Listen to the sound of the earth
turning.
1963 spring
Lighting Piece
Light a march and watch till it
goes out.
1955 autumn
TOUCH POEM VI
Ask people to come.
Invite only dead people.
1964 spring
FLY PIECE
Fly.
1963 summer
PAINTING FOR THE WIND
Cut a hole in a bag filled with seeds
of any kind and place the bag where
there is wind.
1961 summer
📝 For Your Journal…“Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning”
Take a moment today to be completely still.
No music and without distraction.
What do you notice when nothing is happening?
Ask yourself:
What does time feel like when I stop trying to control it?
Where can I sense its quiet movement - in my body, in the room, in the world around me?
What if time is something a lot more fluid than past, present and future.
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