Yayoi Kusama is a contemporary artist from Japan who mainly works in sculpture and installation and does painting, video art, fashion design, and poetry.
Yayoi Kusama Reasoning Behind the Decision to Burn Her Paintings
Kusama painted in new styles and experimented with innovative mediums such as installations, performance art, and sculptures.
Kusama bought about 2000 paintings with her when she moved to America as she wanted to sell them as means of income.
Yayoi Kusama is known for her extensive use of polka dots. She also creates infinity installations where all the elements in the room are reflected in one another. Notable artworks include Obliteration Room (2002-present) and Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli's Field (1965/2016), the first of many iterations.
Yayoi Kusama's obsession with dots began from her hallucinations and thoughts as a child. She had vivid hallucinations and intense fears of them getting worse in the future.
Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon,
sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.
-Yayoi Kusama