Yayoi Kusama is a multi-talented artist, who specializes not only in painting, but also in drawing, sculpture, installation art, performance art, film, fashion, and writing. Kusama wrote a number of books and novels, such as Yayoi Kusama: Driving Image, Lost in Swampland, and many more that comprise of poems that she has written and paintings that she has made.
Kusama uses psychological, sexual and autobiographical content in her creations and it is with the connection of her personal life that makes her work astonishing to the public realm. She made a great number of artworks that allows the audience to dive into the world that she sees, but to name just a few of her notable works are her Inifinity Net painting, Accumulation no.2 furniture and Infinity Mirrored Room – Love Forever and The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away.
Yayoi Kusama’s work all come in a variety of shapes and forms, but all deal with the same subject and that is her mental illness. Yayoi Kusama’s white Infinity Net painting was one of Kusama’s early works in New
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Kusama used multiple media such as acrylic, LED lights, plastic, glass, rubber, and more, and because of her vast use of different media there is nothing “female identified” in terms of the medium. As for the conceptual sense, the fact that the artist has psychological disorders and hallucinations of dots engulfing her world, there lies something feminist in Kusama’s works. Her artworks serve as an expression of her mental disease, and it is with her fear and anxiety that makes her work identifiable as female, since men usually do not express their fright. However, despite her being associated with feminism, where museums try to put her in shows that categorize her works as pop art, minimal art, or feminist art, Yayoi Kusama would still define herself as her own artist and stated that, “Kusama is Kusama, not anything else.” Yayoi Kusama is nothing more than an obsessional artist and tries to create new