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 Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession, 200, Courtey Studio Tokyo\\
+Dots Obsession is physically and visually crowding out human visitors.\\
+"Kusama's interest in pattern began with hallucinations she experienced as a young girl--visions of nets, dots, and flowers that covered everything she saw. Gripped by the idea of 'obliterating the world,' she began covering surfaces with polka dots.
+The vast fields of polka dots, or "infinity nets," as she called them, were taken directly from her hallucinations.
+Yayoi Kusama said about her 1954 painting titled Flower (D.S.P.S),
+"One day I was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked up I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of endless time and the absoluteness of space, and be reduced to nothingness. As I realized it was actually happening and not just in my imagination, I was frightened. I knew I had to run away lest I should be deprived of my life by the spell of the red flowers. I ran desperately up the stairs. The steps below me began to fall apart and I fell down the stairs straining my ankle."
+Today she lives, by choice, in a mental hospital in Tokyo, where she has continued to produce work since the mid-1970s.\\
 source: www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/index.html