10/09/2026
KUSUMA 💕
I love the arts.
Yayoi Kusama (1929–2026) was globally famous for her mesmerizing installations that directly embody the concept of kinetic infinity, bright polka dots, large spotted flowers, crazy pumpkin sculptures, infinity mirrors, her bright fashion and red hair!
She moved to NY and circled in the Pop Art movement, exhibiting alongside artists like Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. She created paintings, sculptures, textiles and large wonderland interior installations.
It’s fascinating how contemporary and popular her work is to this day - it’s playful and immersive, it just makes the viewer smile - not dissimilar to how a comedian makes an audience laugh.
For generations of artists, designers and dreamers, Kusama gave permission to be weird and wonderful, interesting and uncompromising, colourful and vulnerable, obsessive and excessive. There is an extraordinary power in the love language of art, and hers speaks for itself.
This lady painted up until her final days at 97 which is so beautiful and perhaps that is the best ending imaginable for anyone - to live and die doing what make you happy and sharing it with the world.
What an inspiration. ❤️
