Artist, activist, musician and icon – Yoko Ono has worn many hats (and we’re not just talking about her signature styled black brimmed hat).
Once famously described by John Lennon as ‘the world’s most famous unknown artist’, Ono’s innovative exhibition at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art has been thrilling Australian audiences this summer.
During her recent visit to Australia, we were lucky enough to sit down exclusively with Yoko Ono and curator Rachel Kent to discuss her current exhibition. Tonight at 8.30pm STUDIO Loves will get up close and personal with Yoko in the world premiere of Yoko Ono: War is Over! (If You Want It).
Recently, Yoko penned down an intriguing list of some of her innermost thoughts and peculiarities in an article titled 25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now. We’ve been intrigued by these quirky yet endearing confessions, and have picked out a few of our favourites to tide you over until tonight’s premiere.
A selection from 25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now by Yoko Ono.
5. Okay, I must confess. I love wearing high heel shoes. I love wearing silk stockings. I love wearing hot pants. When I arm myself with those three, I feel like a tough girl from the 1930′s. If I didn’t look at myself in the mirror, I might just mistake myself for Rita Heyworth, or Marlene Dietrich. How great is that?!
16. I used to love wandering aimlessly. I used to walk about 7 miles in the city aimlessly, but with the speed of the wind! I can’t do that now. If I did it now it would be unfair to the security guard.
21. When I daydream, I go all the way to the end of the Earth, and come back. It’s a nice exercise.
24. John and I felt that we were like people in an H.G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them. Well, that creates a problem, too. Sometimes you want to have a good chat with friends.
25. In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further. I think that’s what happened to us gods and goddesses. Like the dinosaurs, we realized that it’s too dangerous to be so large. So we kept shrinking ourselves to what we are now. We might get even smaller. I see the sign in the engineers making smaller gadgets, smaller and smaller. Pretty soon, our fingers will be too large to operate them. So what are we doing? I trust in the human wisdom. We are incredibly intelligent beings. So we might know something without thinking that we know…. Well, even my best friend didn’t know until now that I was thinking of crazy things like this.
You can read Yoko Ono’s full list on her website HERE.
