My art is an expression of my life, particularly of my mental disease, and of my desire to escape from it.
— Yayoi Kusama Contemporary

Polka dot artist, lives in asylum by choice

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From her autobiography 'Infinity Net'

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2002

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Strange & Unusual

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https://books.google.com/books/about/Infinity_Net.html?id=c8s2ngEACAAJ

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