Work

Red Pumpkin. This is a famous sculpture work of Kusama which features her most well-known pumpkin theme.

I read her biography and visited Naoshima, where two of her pumpkin sculptures reside.

It was an interesting experience for me to visit the sculpture.

The sculpture gave me distinct impressions when I visited it at different time periods.

During the day it's an odd construction with holes that perfectly camouflaged themselves with other dots on the surface on the pumpkin.

During the night the holes start to emit light because inside the pumpkin, there are lights installed on the ground that people won't easily pay attention to during the day.

Kusama uses the pumpkin to express her own world.

When I was looking at the pumpkin, it predominates my view. At the port of Naoshima, though it stands there on its own without any companies, I felt it was just because of its exclusiveness that it uses all of its surrounding to emphasize its existence, just like Yayoi Kusama's inner desire of getting noticed.