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“Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist born in 1929. As her early paintings featuring abstract forms didn’t fit the image of woman’s art in Japan, she decided to move to USA in 1957. ” For art like mine – art that does battle at the border of life and death, questioning what we are and what it means to live and die – [Japan] was too small, too servile, too feudalistic and too scornful of women. My art needed a more unlimited freedom and a wider world.” Read More