Dear Sophie -
YAYOI KUSAMA obsessively constructs works, installations and performance pieces with dots, eggs and phallic forms. Raised outside of Tokyo, she came to New York in the 1960's where she was central to the emerging performance art community. Her inclusion of images of herself is integral to her practice.
She returned to Japan in the 1970's and ultimately admitted herself to a hospital where assured of her emotional security, she continues to live and work today.
With love,
Mom
