"When I was with John, we were always hiding. After John's death, in December of 1980, I was hiding totally. Well, time has passed. It's time to enjoy human contact. Always, it used to be me alone in my apartment, or riding in seclusion in a limousine. Or eating in a restaurant - in a separate room they give you, all alone. Or swimming in an empty beach, without anyone seeing you. I can never get over the fact that John was killed, especially because of my son, Sean, who is growing every day. He's 11 now, and each time Sean does something beautiful, I want to tell John about it and share it - and John is not here..This pain and sorrow thing seems to be part of my life. Each time I do a project about John, I have mixed feelings. But I'm sure John would have liked me to look after him, instead of abandoning the projects."

In the Maui News, also on July 10, Yoko was interviewed by Jon Woodhouse. She talked about her impatience for peace and about John's art. Some of it was personal - drawings just for her, but Yoko has decided to share them with the public so that John's memory will be kept alive. She said, "I think by showing these works of John, because each work has John's quality in the sense of loving and very humorous, witty energy in it - by sharing that energy with you, I feel you might get more energy from it."

Yoko feels John's art is appreciated now by people who did not especially care for John's music. "Because he was a good artist as well. Artists say to me, 'I didn't know he was so good with lines.' Very artistic lines, comparable with Picasso and Matisse."

Yoko talked to Woodhouse about the quickness of John's work. She told about a favorite story of John's from Japan: "It's a story about a Japanese lord who gives an assignment to an artist to do a beautiful painting. He waits for a year and sends a messenger. The messenger goes to the house of the painter and the painter comes out and says, 'wait here' and he goes and whips out a brush and does the drawing. The messenger brings back the painting and says 'He didn't have the painting done at all, he just whipped this out while I was waiting.' The lord was very angry and summoned the artist and says, 'I understand you just did this while he was waiting.' The painter says, 'Yes, for the whole year I was preparing for this painting. It took a year to prepare my mind.' John loved that story. He was a very quick thinker and worker so that kind of thing appealed to him. The whole Western concept of how many hours did you spend to do this - quick lines and all that is magical. It's like stream of consciousness and it's very precious because it's beyond intentions and schemes, it's a pure thing."

On Peace: "I criticize myself for having been too impatient. We wanted to achieve a peaceful world, where we can live in joy. About two years ago, we recorded my song, 'Now or Never' and it still applies and that's a song I wrote and recorded in 1972. At the time I said now or never, it's got to be done."

What will come first for Yoko: world peace or inner peace? She answers: "I don't think I'm going to relax yet until the world situation is better. This is a time that we can still go the other way if we fall asleep. And I think I have to be alert for Sean as well. And I haven't quite adjusted to not having John around. It will take a few more years. I'm starting to think we are a total one body, all of us. There's no such thing as really relaxing and being peaceful when on a subconscious level, there's feeling that children are being killed in Lebanon, we're hearing the cries of the mothers, or children abused in our country. All that is in our subconscious, so until we're totally free of all that, I don't think we can be peaceful."

The Dyansen Gallery in Kaanapali on Maui was showing John's art in July 1987 featuring 32 framed lithographs, several framed and unframed serigraphs and 13 neon kinetic sculptures. The original "Bag One" portfolio was also available for viewing or purchase.