I almost threw in the towel today. But I got a couple of messages that convinced me not to. One when I saw a post from @dothe100dayproject and it said DO IT! KEEP GOING!!!
Next my daughter messaged me telling me how her flatmate’s colleague was telling everyone in the staff room about a piece of my art they had just purchased. One of my AROHA pieces . Thanks Tanya 🙏🏼
So there it was.
I also mentioned @yayoikusama_ the other day in my nod to women artists who have paved the way.
Largely known for her polka dot works, her early work in New York City included what she called “infinity net” paintings. Those consisted of thousands of tiny marks obsessively repeated across large canvases without regard for the edges of the canvas, as if they continued into infinity. Such works explored the physical and psychological boundaries of painting, with the seemingly endless repetition of the marks creating an almost hypnotic sensation for both the viewer and the artist. Her paintings from that period anticipated the emerging Minimalist movement, but her work soon transitioned to Pop art and performance art. She became a central figure in the New York avant-garde scene.
Kusama has been open about her mental health and has resided since the 1970s in a mental health facility which she leaves daily to walk to her nearby studio to work. She says that art has become her way to express her mental problems.
“I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieved my illness is to keep creating art,” she told an interviewer in 2012. “I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.”
And although I was feeling despondent that no one is seeing my little pieces this was enough today to keep me going and to produce a tiny infinity web piece.
