MENDED CUPS, the latest work in the illy art collection, consists of six cups that bear gold, ‘shattered’ and ‘mended’ crack lines. These are accompanied by six individual saucers with Yoko Ono’s handwriting, naming six catastrophic events that have affected the world, some have directly affected her life and others only indirectly, but have brought death to millions of people. Each saucer states the date and location of the event and concludes with the words “… mended in 2015.”
The seventh cup in the collection, the UNBROKEN CUP, is untouched with no cracked or mended lines, reflecting peace and hope with Ono’s handwritten words on the saucer,
“This cup will never be broken as it will be under your protection.”
