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Question: What is your reaction to the following poem called PAINTING UNTIL IT BECOMES MARBLE by Yoko Ono!?
Cut out and hang a painting, design, a photo-
graph, or a writing (printed or otherwise), that
you like!.
Let visitors cut out their favorite parts and take
them!.
For example, if the visitor likes red, let him take
all the red parts!.
Ask many visitors to cut out their favorite parts
until the whole thing is gone!.
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!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I like it!. It's a poem about art, art about art, like two mirrors and a paradox!. I love the way she uses a physical action - "let visitors cut out their favourite parts" - to symbolise the metaphorical action of interpretation!. also, the way that the visitors take, take take from the art until nothing is left!.!.!. like after too much viewing, the art is somehow void!? It's a very good poem: it raises a lot of questions!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I think as per usual Ono is asking everyone else to do her work, and having grown up with jules, I would say she is still just unqualified background noiseWww@QuestionHome@Com
I think her drug dealer was having a 50 percent off saleWww@QuestionHome@Com
I like it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I think I would cut her hand off!.!.!.!.!.whichever hand she writes with, that is!.Www@QuestionHome@Com