Yayoi Kusama, the 83 years old princess of polka dots, is a sculptor, painter, writer, installation artist and performance artist. As a child, when she started to experience the hallucinations, from which she has since suffered all her life, her response was to paint polka dots. This motif has remained a central feature of her work, and expresses her feeling of revolving ‘in the infinity of endless time and the absoluteness of space,’ and her view of herself as ‘a dot lost among a million other dots.’
Kusama’s most recent international splash is reaching far beyond museums and into the fashion world. Recently the artist has collaborated with Marc Jacobs on a line of Louis Vuitton products including dresses, swimsuits, bags, jewelry, and sunglasses, injecting her colorful polka dot patterns into high fashion.
it is very hard to recollect and express one’s problems like this
fabulous…wow
[...] shape. The rest of the night I spent with wonderful fever hallucinations in a landscape much like Yayoi Kusama‘s creations, only instead of dots the patterns consisted of bananas. A strange night indeed. [...]
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Wild!
Quite fantastic. An amazing existence.