Yayoi Kusama

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Portrait SSA (2009)

Dignified and solemn but cheerful and mysterious at the same time. This is a very real representation, assuming (as I do) that reality does not exist.

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Pumpkin (2000)

Absolutely stunning...

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Flower (D.S.P.S.) (1954)

"One day I was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked up I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of endless time and the absoluteness of space, and be reduced to nothingness. As I realized it was actually happening and not just in my imagination, I was frightened. I knew I had to run away lest I should be deprived of my life by the spell of the red flowers. I ran desperately up the stairs. The steps below me began to fall apart and I fell down the stairs straining my ankle." ---Yayoi Kusama

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Butterfly (1988)

How does our perception works? Why doe we see things as we do? Why do we sometimes have these moments when we see a thing which is not really there? Or maybe it's always been there but we've just managed to see it for a second...

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Eyes of mine (2010)

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I want to live honestly, like the eye in the picture (2009)

Is it ever possible?

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Polka Dots Madness 6

I would love being in this room. Just imagine. Love those shapes.

Thank you Yayoi:

Yayoi Kusama