I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only way I can conquer my illness is to resolve all the emotions that are born from it into my art.
— Yayoi Kusama Contemporary

Polka dot artist, lives in asylum by choice

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Interview with The Brooklyn Rail

Date / Period

2013

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Strange & Unusual

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https://brooklynrail.org/2013/05/art/yayoi-kusama-with-francesca-gavin

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