hide in the cupboard
a) until your family starts to wonder
b) until your family forgets you
(make choice)
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100 Acorns
It's been 44 years since my book of conceptual instructions, GRAPEFRUIT was first published in 1964.
On 15 June 1968, John Lennon & I planted two acorns for peace at Coventry Cathedral. It was the first of our many Peace 'Events'.
In the summer of 1996, I picked up from where I left off, and wrote 100 ACORNS.
Starting on the 40th anniversary of the Acorn Peace Event on 15 June 2008, I will publish here an 'Acorn' every day for 100 days.
After each day of sharing the instructions, you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you.
I'm just planting the seeds.
Have fun.
Love, yoko
June 2008
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14 comments:
I used to do stuff like that..sometimes I still do.
I would really want them to worry about me.But I would get tired of hiding and come out and apparently no one had even noticed I was gone.
Sometimes also,I would pretend to be asleep and hold my breath to see if anyone would notice that I wasn't breathing and would think I was dead...
I was/am strange.:P
b) Starts to wonder as I don't think they would forget me...at least I hope not...I am no tvery good in enclosed spaces so probably I wont even get to find out whether its a or b maybe I will just disappear for a while....
To oh yoko (lennonlover) - no your are not strange doing that was normal for children unless you are still trying those tricks to often, lol!
I love this drawing and this acorn. I think that all sensitive people in the world would see themselves pictured in that little person hidding/trapped by giant walls.
Yes, as ~oh yoko~(lennonlover) and lilly's life I also have played those games as a child (and as an adult too I may confess): My favourite places to hide were a huge wooden bench in the kitchen and the crown of a walnut tree in the courtyard, (as an adult the toilets at the Office)but as a mature one today, I prefer to stand and face any kind of trouble life could bring.
So, now I'm standing for the ACORN organization (www.acorn.org)some of the few ones trying to protect families with low incomes in this time of echonomical crisis.
Now it's time for others to hide: sticky hands speculators, holeheads politicians, grasp-and-run thiefllionaires, tax haven darlings,...
After several times of hidding in the past combining both options a) and b) depending on my rage or in my state of mind, Now my choice is:
c) Getting out shouting clear and loud: "Bail Out Main Street Not Just Wall Street", until the leaders of the World start to REALLY wonder.
"b"
My mother once told me that she would protect her 5 older children before she would protect me.
That hurt.
such very difficult choices you pose ~ what does it mean that i can rarely choose?
I would go with choice (a)...
It is funny. I try to hide. My kids can always find me. On the other hand the grown ups have a hard time finding me.
LA
detrich was here
when there he noted that kilroy had also been there.
detrich went to look for another cupboard, a cupboard that kilroy hadn't beaten him too.
no ones sure when he's coming back
but we know he will. We will miss him for awhile and hope that he finds his cupboard. We hope that its not too dark nor too full of spiders. we hope its a nice cupboard with enough space for him to stretch out his legs and lie down in. We hope he finds food there or at least takes some in with him to last as long as he wants to stay.
We are his family and we wish him well. His dad wasn't a george, his ma was a betty. his sista went by the name of nesta and his bro jumped from the jetty and swam to someones islands before we could give him a nam. Good looking boy mind. detrich he never learned to love his look. Maybe that's why he lives for cupboards. We love the life we live but our boy just loves to live in cupboards. Maybe he'll make it back for tomorrow. he said to say hi before he left.Hi amd bye everybody
Dear Yoko,
b)If you need not be found, then don't make a sound, and in the cupboard stay bound.
Regards,
Joseph
My family started to wonder about me when I was five years old. Then they forgot about the real me - and I didn't even have to hide in a cupboard!
Oh, how it depends!! If it was my Mom and Dad and Sister and Brother and Inlaws then the answer would be B. If it were my husband and children, it would be A. only I would want the children to start wondering later than my husband does.
The cupboard is a good place for a person like me. I only like coming out of my box when it is right for me. When I am in pain, I crawl in the box. When I feel better I come out and shout at the top of my lungs!!
That is the exact choice, exactly. But what action would follow that choice?
Wow, such an eye-opening post from the ever-wonderful Yoko! Hope you keep up the amazing conceptual pieces! I love them! Love you too, Yoko! i ii iii :)
If you follow my blog, you know I don't post enough! Life, work, distractions, it premature ejaculation all keeps me running. But I thought I'd update you on some cool stuff happening.
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