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Lot Essay
I have been making prints ever since I was captivated by their allure, and am constantly overwhelmed by the brilliance arising from within the process of making them.
In creating art, everyday is a discovery of life amidst the daily activity of people whose existence is ephemeral. I keep looking back on my bygone days, reminding myself that prints are the endless footsteps of life.
With this thought, I keep on sending to many people my inexhaustible, intense feelings toward all things through prints, duplicating them in large numbers.
I create prints with all my heart for the people who love them. Whenever I work on prints, I am filled with a wish to convey to the people my thought in a deep, straight and pure way with clear brightness.
This is why I can keep creating prints. I wish to make countless duplicates of the same visual field and spread them across the world. This is my longing for formative arts.
Prints toward which I have these intense feelings are one of the objectives of art in my lifelong career. They also definitely represent a visual aspect of repetitive action and repetitive vision. I have been turning pages of my life using every possible means, such as sculpture, installation, electric environment, light source illusion, repetitive vision, sex-food-obsession, infinity nets, compulsion furniture, eternal vision against the background of the universe, and pursuit for ever-proliferating beauty and for boundless love and hope. And various discoveries of my soul. I would like to emphasize here that prints are part of each of these aspects. (Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Prints: 1979 - 2017, p.5)
In creating art, everyday is a discovery of life amidst the daily activity of people whose existence is ephemeral. I keep looking back on my bygone days, reminding myself that prints are the endless footsteps of life.
With this thought, I keep on sending to many people my inexhaustible, intense feelings toward all things through prints, duplicating them in large numbers.
I create prints with all my heart for the people who love them. Whenever I work on prints, I am filled with a wish to convey to the people my thought in a deep, straight and pure way with clear brightness.
This is why I can keep creating prints. I wish to make countless duplicates of the same visual field and spread them across the world. This is my longing for formative arts.
Prints toward which I have these intense feelings are one of the objectives of art in my lifelong career. They also definitely represent a visual aspect of repetitive action and repetitive vision. I have been turning pages of my life using every possible means, such as sculpture, installation, electric environment, light source illusion, repetitive vision, sex-food-obsession, infinity nets, compulsion furniture, eternal vision against the background of the universe, and pursuit for ever-proliferating beauty and for boundless love and hope. And various discoveries of my soul. I would like to emphasize here that prints are part of each of these aspects. (Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Prints: 1979 - 2017, p.5)