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Yoko Ono Yoko Ono, here to deliver the 2003 commencement speech at Maine College of Art, spent a few moments with us to discuss her feelings about Maine. Berenice Abbott once told me that no one's ever taken a good photograph o/ V laine because they let the lighthouses and lobster boats get in the wav. 1 low would vou go about taking an original picture o/ Maine? YO: Actually the streets are quite interesting, anil we were driving anil the houses on tw o sides of the road w ere pioneer houses, lived in so long by families, and you get .1 sense of that. I w ould have taken pictures of those houses in little coastal tow ns because they looked really 1 iy cd in. An old American feeling - pioneer. / he students of A laine College of Art chose vou because 0/ vour world citizenship and your fearless pursuit of the avant garde. If vou hadn 't been able to deliver this address, using these criteria, who should have come? YO: I would not know. ( Twinkles) Maybe Ringo. You seem incredibly young and vital at 70. What's vour secret? YO: My senses are getting more acute and my world is getting larger, literaralk. I used to whisper to myself, don’t talk about the second \\ odd War because that would dale you. Now I say whv wasn’t I there for the first World W ar, too! I have a different take on age. I think age in some sense is totally relevant. Experience is much more important. ,\ge is all relative, l ime is a man-made concept. What part of Japan is most like Maine? YO: Oh. there are so many places like Japan. I Jltlc pockets all oy er the place. In Montreal at the Queen Elizabeth I lotel. they're still talking about vour famous visit. I lave vou ever been back there since? YO: No. That’s funny , because I mean I'm in a hotel right now - time as one great hotel. Just a minute, somebody s at the door. (comes back, laughing) You're asking if I remember my honeymoon x iy idly ? Of course I remember it y iy idly. It's a time 1 remember even more acutely now because of the tense situation in the world. I think it’s very important to encourage young fellow artists to become active participants in the society as artists. 'I hats whv Ive come to speak at Maine College of Art . I hat's w hv I’ve chosen right now . / low many times have you been to A laine before? YO: Um. I believe it’s a couple of times, but just once w ith John. W e w ere drivng the coast, so to speak. I think may be in a station wagon. 1 Ie fell in love w ith Wlicrexer We Went and now he'd fallen in love w ith Maine. W c talked excitedly in the car. W c were looking fora house on the water. W e did examine the place! We kept driving north along the water until I don't really remember the name of the town. We went quite a ways up. actually , because it was so beautiful. Exactly . It’s a beautiful beautiful place, clean water and air. Are you really an 'ocean child’ as 1 understand vour name implies? Do vou have an affinity with water? YO: Well 1 have an affinity for water in a conceptual sense. I have an affinity for the ocean and its sense of vastness and its scope and its ever¬ changing condition, but also its never-changing condition, too. It's a ven interesting, ven rich phen¬ omenon. Ocean is emotion, sou know . It s an interesting emotional and 'motional' experience. But y ou know? I prefer to vacation in the mountains! CAilin SuK’cnt
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