Yoko Ono, Ceiling Painting, 1966
The interactive object known as Ceiling Painting was an important work shown at Ono’s 1966 Indica Gallery show in London. The viewer is invited in his or her mind to climb to the top of a white ladder, where a magnifying glass, attached by a chain, hangs from a frame on the ceiling. The viewer uses the reading glass to discover a block letter “instruction” beneath the framed sheet of glass:
it says “YES”.
John Lennon tells the story so well of his going to the Indica gallery and climbing the step ladder and being overjoyed to see it said “Yes” and that he would have been so disappointed if it had read anything else
So much that he felt he had to meet the artist and the rest is history!
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