artist of the day...
Yayoi Kusama
is a person with a very powerful vision and a great story. I would say it was a sad story of torturous proportions but then there are those dots and then there are the not dots.
I would propose that in the beginning her dots were a way of filtering her world to her own mind. A way to regulate her own experience. For example, in the YouTube clip, she speaks of covering her Mother with dots in an early portrait. When you know a little more about her relationship to her mother you begin to see how she is using her aesthetic faculties to maybe neutralise that volatile relationship. To put her childhood into a contemporary light it would seem similar to the archetypal Emo kid and their curtains of black hair. In essence she is controling the viewers dynamic. As she matured and could control her personal life with greater ease the dots become a Solomons carpet of sorts giving her avenues of expression and a mobility within life's landscapes and articulating a unique vision collectively. Art in general I think is a valuable tool for reclaiming spaces, perhaps monopolised by a bigger presence. Again in the clip, you see Mrs. Kusama is filling the lake with the reflective spheres. That space once defined by "Parks and Recreation" is returned to a superposition, reorganised and liberated by a pool of mesmerizing change. Update: The National Art Center Tokyo is currently exhibiting "Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul", which showcases Yayoi Kusama. As such, we would like to take the opportunity to now promote her work. https://www.artsy.net/artist/yayoi-kusama
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When you look at her background you start to get a picture of how influential she has been on American culture as well...
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