"...a polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colorful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots become movement... Polka dots are a way to infinity." Y.K.

Yayoi Kusama 草間彌生 or 草間弥生, b.March 22, 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, is a Japanese artist whose painting, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and envirnmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation.

She began covering surfaces such as walls, canvas, floors, and later, household objects and naked assistants, with the "polka dots", that would become a trademark of her work.

The vast fields of "infinity nets," as she called them, were taken directly from her hallucinations.