ANC025: Letters to Yoko Ono by Sarah Taylor

50-page book in resealable string and button envelope,
handmade and numbered
ANC025 is out of print.
​2015

I have sent another shard to my mother. Maybe she will call and the machine will record her voice while I pretend to be busy. She is going to die soon.

Published in 1964, Yoko Ono's monumental Grapefruit is recognized today as an archetype of the event score, a text-based art form providing instructions for simple yet transformative experiences. Recontextualizing the everyday as performance, Ono sought to provide her audience with stronger, healthier methods for relating to themselves and their fellow humans.

Using the piece Shoot One Hundred Panes of Glass as a foundation, Sarah Taylor explores the anxieties of a young woman struggling to manage the impending death of her estranged mother. Letters to Yoko Ono is just what the title suggests─an epistolary collection of prose poems detailing the increasingly surreal days of the narrator as she performs a fifty-year-old conceptual art piece, and the emotions that linger and resolve themselves like shards of glass put back together. In this debut work, Taylor proves that painful choices are often the most inescapable.

Sarah Taylor

Sarah Taylor resides in the Midwest after having graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, CA with a BA degree in Creative Writing. She focuses on hybrid work that blurs the lines between fiction and poetry. Sarah feels her objective as a writer is to both make the mundane into something oddly beautiful and to "fail better" at re-telling the stories within us. Letters to Yoko Ono is her debut work.