In July 1961, George Maciunas, an architect, designer, and co-director of the AG

Gallery offered Ono her first solo show. Ono went to an Army surplus shop and bought a rolled canvas. After going back to her loft, she began to cut and stretch the canvas. After cutting the circle, there was a kind of strange shape. This piece was part of a series she did call, One Woman Show: 1960–1971. Ono recounted that it was beautiful and she believes that the fact that each one had a function that was totally different from each other made it important. She was originally going to explain her intentions and how to interact with the paintings to the guest but it would be tolling on her so she decided to write some instructions down (The Museum Of Modern Art, [MoMA], 2018). As one of the pioneers in interactive art, Ono's Painting to be Stepped On made some question the meaning of art. Art was not typically something that is on the floor or something to be stepped on. Art was something to be admired or viewed. Her act of challenging this with simple materials and simple instructions not only kick-started a whole new movement in art, it altered the way people saw art as well. If anything could be art, it may have inspired people to start seeing the world around them as a canvas and find art in mundane life.