Yoko Ono’s 1964 conceptual art book, Grapefruit — a collection of poetic “event scores” that blurred the line between art, instruction, and meditation. Long before performance art or conceptualism had mainstream language, Ono was already teaching audiences to imagine, to feel, and to see differently.
Each piece in Grapefruit was simple yet profound — part Zen koan, part creative invitation. Lines like “Listen to the sound of the earth turning” or “Imagine one thousand suns in the sky at the same time” anticipated the spirit of peace and imagination that later shaped her collaborations with John Lennon.
