Thursday 13th April
Yayoi Kusama
“Since 1977 Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric
institution, and much of her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a
desire to escape from psychological trauma.” – Tate website
Kusama
started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs at around age ten ,and
created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils but is best known
for her work with polka dots.
I am
attracted toYayoi Kusama’s work because of how she uses shapes (specifically
polka dots) within her work to create the landscape. She uses mirrors and polka
dots to create scenes where the pattern is seen to be endless.
I want to create pieces that have
the same lines running throughout so that I can create the effect of the
pattern being endless like Kusama has achieved.
Our earth is only one polka
dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity.
–Yayoi Kusama
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