DRINKING PIECE FOR ORCHESTRA (1963)
Imagine letting a goldfish swim across
the sky.
Let it swim from the West to the East.
Drink a liter of water.
Imagine letting a goldfish swim across
the sky.
Let it swim from the East to the West.
1963 spring
Instruction originally published in Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit, 1964.
DRINKING PIECE FOR ORCHESTRA (2008)
Glass water tank with goldfish, water, sky.
Photograph: © Yoko Ono
I imagine diving into the ocean and swimming underwater to the bottom from north to south.
When I reach the bottom of the ocean I take an air capsule and return to the surface from south to north.
Now I am just in time to listen to a string quartet perform George Frederick Handel’s ‘Air’ from “Water Music”.