Yayoi Kusama

Now we are members of the Tate Modern Galleries we are making sure our investment works in our favour. Earlier this week we visited an exhibition by Yayoi Kusama. Yayoi was born in Japan in 1940 and became a major figure in the New York avant-garde with key works in pop, minimalism and peformance.

This exhibition gave us the ability to see her life journey with her obsessive need to create dense patterns she created in trance like states and in particlular polka dots.

She also had an obsession will phallic shapes and created many installations representing the male form.

Her work covered over 60 years and her depression, suicidal tendancies and final journey in to a psychiatric hospital where she is still living today.

Her work touched me in a way that no other artist has. Her work reflected her heart, soul, obsessions and pain. Her work is her.........she is her work...there is no division. She currently has the title of highest paid living female artist with one of her pieces selling for 5.1 Million.

One of my favorites was an installation called the Mirror Infinity Room. It provides the perception of infinite space and light.........you feel insignificant yet free...hard to explain......incredible!

Without a doubt, this was one of the most touching exhibitions I have seen......