No. C.A.9
Yayoi Kusama
YAYOI KUSAMA, 1960. OIL ON CANVAS.
A constant battle for the infinity within the mind to exist in the world. From a young age, Kusama hallucinated – seeing nets of interconnected dots that expanded into infinity overlayed across her field of vision. People, flowers, furniture became backgrounds to a world playing out inside her head, and her father brought her paints and canvas to try and help her express what she felt. Over 70 years, she has dealt with this same theme, working from the psychiatric institution she checked herself into in 1970 and then never left, in performance, painting, sculpture and installation. But in 1960, she had just moved to New York, leaving behind a world of domestic house-wifery that her parents wanted for her, and she translated her visions in the simplest way she knew how, by painting them as she saw them. These Infinity Nets are works of mental struggle, and testament to the power of art to not just quiet thoughts but invite your viewer into the loudness your own mind,