John Lennon’s Widow Ms. Yoko Ono has joined the campaign which will feature non-violence sculptures interpreted by world personalities, youths from around the world as well as local youth from each city where the Exhibition is presented beginning in Mexico and then Brazil, The United States, The United Kingdom, Italy, South Africa, China and Sweden. The Non-Violence Project’s signature logo is the well-known symbol of peace – the gun with the knotted barrel – created by the Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd as a memorial tribute to John Lennon after he was shot and killed on December 8, 1980 in New York City. Unveiling her interpretation of the gun symbol, created in her late husband’s memory, she said, “While creating my interpretation of the knotted gun symbol, I thought back to Imagine and the words “living as one” as both John and I were devoted to the idea that we can work together to achieve world peace and eliminate the violence and the suffering in this world. As I have often said a dream we dream alone is just a dream – a dream we dream together is reality.”
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