Yoko Ono turns 90, son Sean Lennon creates the wish tree

Yoko Onowidow of John Lennonhe received for his 90 years old a special gift from the son Sean Ono Lennon: a virtual “wish tree”.that is, an installation inspired by the ancient Japanese custom, also practiced by Yoko when she was a child, of writing a wish on a piece of paper to hang from the branches of a tree

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Yoko had created the first “wish tree” in 1996: From a distance, the slips “looked like white flowers blooming,” he explained. Since then, thanks to more than 200 trees planted in museums and galleries of 35 countriesthe artist collected almost 2 million wishesburied in Iceland at the base of the Imagine Peace Tower

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In 2003 Yoko Ono donated to Guggenheim Collection in Venice an olive tree, later exhibited in the museum garden near the grave of the founder and friend Peggy Guggenheim, whom the artist had guided during a visit to Japan

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Sean Ono Lennon started the website wishtreeforyokoono.com”to give the whole world the opportunity to make a wish for her and to plant a tree in her honor. Make a wish. Plant a tree. Wish Yoko Ono a happy birthday. Is simple”

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“If we pass a tree of any size, my mom inevitably stops and hug the tree with incredible enthusiasm,” said Yoko Ono’s son

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Born in 1933 to Tokyo From one wealthy family (father was a banker, mother a pianist), then fell into disrepair during the Second World War (as a child she suffered from hunger and imagined reading menus in the clouds, “my first work of art”), Yoko Ono moved to the United Stateswhere he attended artists, writers, poets and musicians

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Predominantly interested in painting and music, from the mid-1950s Yoko Ono explored the world ofconceptual and performance art with an innovative, visionary and revolutionary look. Prominent figure of Fluxus, international community of artists of avant-garde of the Sixties, he created works and performances also thanks to the participation of the spectators, called to cut pieces of clothes, trample on canvases or follow Zen instructions

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It was precisely art that gave birth to thelove with John Lennon: after visiting a London exhibition of Yoko Ono, the composer and singer of the Beatles shared deep spiritual affinities with the woman crowned by the marriage celebrated in 1969. The wedding photo shows the bride in a white mini-dress, hat, white socks and trainers against the backdrop of the Rock of Gibraltar and the groom in a turtleneck

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Yoko Ono has combined art withactivism. In protest against the Vietnam War, the artist and her husband created the performance in 1969 bed-in, during which they remained in bed for a consecutive week. The couple thus sanctioned the future engagement of War is Over!also continued in the musical field with the hymn to pacifism Give Peace a Chance recorded by Lennon with the Plastic Ono Bandthe group founded together with Yoko

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For a week in 1972 Yoko Ono and John Lennon also got involved in the Mike Douglas Show40 million viewer program of “Middle America”, the best brains of counterculture to talk about women’s empowerment, civil rights, the environmental crisis and political violence

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Yoko Ono and John Lennon suffered several miscarriages before theirs was born son Seanwhich took place in 1975

John Lennon, the album “Plastic Ono Band”

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In the seventies the couple also went through some dark moments, between heroin abuse and a momentary separation (during which Lennon dated Mary Pang), but then remained firm until December 8, 1980, the day of theassassination of John Lennonshot dead by Mark David Chapman under Dakota’s New York apartment, where Yoko Ono still lives today

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Just a few minutes before Annie Leibovitz he had portrayed the couple’s love in a shot in which John Lennon, completely naked and in a fetal pose, hugs Yoko Ono who is lying on the ground fully clothed. “She captured our relationship exactly,” the musician told the photographer

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Recently Yoko Ono he stopped public appearancesperhaps due to a stroke that allegedly struck her three years ago

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For the ninetieth birthday there was no lack of celebrity greetingsfrom member of the Beatles Ringo Starr to the pop star Elton Johnand again from Lennon’s first son Julian Lennon to the leader of Oasis Liam Gallagherup to the photographer Annie Leibovitz

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