Yayoi Kusama: How Hallucinations Became Avant-Garde Art

Yayoi Kusama is an artist famous for using dots in her artwork.

She began seeing visions and flashes of light when she was a child.

These experiences sometimes appeared to her as dots and flowers.

Instead of ignoring them, she used them as ideas for her art.

Kusama said she still saw dots in many places around her.

She described seeing them on her clothes, the floor, the ceiling and other objects.

She painted these visions so other people could see them too.

Her unusual approach helped create avant-garde art.

This is why she became known as the “Polka Dot Queen.”