Continuing on with contributions to "On Kawara" (2002, Phaidon), Gary Neill Kennedy (a Canadian conceptual artist) shares his experience of meeting On in the late 60s in Nova Scotia. At that time, Kennedy was working at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax. He mentions spending an evening playing poker with On, On's wife Hiroko, Jerry Ferguson, and Kaspar König. It sounds like that is the only encounter Kennedy had with On. He didn't have a lot to say about him but shared a few details---On was in Nova Scotia fishing for salmon and played poker with the cool guys at the school. Perhaps, On was a regular guy after all. A regular guy with some cool ideas that caught people's attention--he was sending telegrams at that time with the message 'I AM STILL ALIVE.' I remember my mother and I going to the "Telegram" office to collect telegrams when we lived in Malta. They were from my itinerant father, probably announcing when he'd be back from his latest overseas job.
#3: On Kawara: degrees of separation
#3: On Kawara: degrees of separation
#3: On Kawara: degrees of separation
Continuing on with contributions to "On Kawara" (2002, Phaidon), Gary Neill Kennedy (a Canadian conceptual artist) shares his experience of meeting On in the late 60s in Nova Scotia. At that time, Kennedy was working at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax. He mentions spending an evening playing poker with On, On's wife Hiroko, Jerry Ferguson, and Kaspar König. It sounds like that is the only encounter Kennedy had with On. He didn't have a lot to say about him but shared a few details---On was in Nova Scotia fishing for salmon and played poker with the cool guys at the school. Perhaps, On was a regular guy after all. A regular guy with some cool ideas that caught people's attention--he was sending telegrams at that time with the message 'I AM STILL ALIVE.' I remember my mother and I going to the "Telegram" office to collect telegrams when we lived in Malta. They were from my itinerant father, probably announcing when he'd be back from his latest overseas job.