Photo from: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/89298005086608096/ I would like to share an installation which is my favourite. That's "I'm Here, But Nothing" by Yayoi Kusama in 2000. It is an installation that using the element of self-obliteration and polka dots. She will set up a local living room. It means that if she has an exhibition in the United State, she will buy all the furniture from that place and set up the living room in a local style. Then, she sticks many colorful, fluorescent vinyl sticker spots on the household objects even covered all of these in the living room. On the other hand, she also installs ultraviolet fluorescent light or called black light at the edges of the ceiling. She wants her installation can be more close to the visitors who mainly are locals. Photo from: http://designoclasm.blogspot.hk/2012/04/im-here-but-nothing-by-yayoi-kusama.html When people get in the room, they will have an illusion of the fluorescent dots. As we all know, Kusama has been suffering from hallucination since her childhood. In her hallucinations, the world appeared as covered by dots and repetitive shapes, like an infinite starry sky. In this installation, Kusama completely succeeds in making her hallucination real so that the visitors can experience the world that Kusama sees concretely. Photo from: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/11399805278406653/ At first, when I saw this installation, I felt like my emotions are repressed. The environment is dark and too many color of dots also make me feeling dizzy and uncomfortable. Few minutes past, you will start to feel better and try to understand the world of Kusama. Actually, I think she has adjusted the world she saw into a more colorful and beautiful form. The world she saw becomes much more worse. We experience her disability in a short time and we also have a bad mood of it, but she face it every day. It is a good installation that we can know and experience more about Kusama.
