7 JUNE, 2023
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Hotel booking website Hotel posted some interesting AI-generated images on Instagram, of a hotel filled with polka dots and pumpkin motifs.
These AI-generated pumpkin-shaped buildings and beds were meant to create a feel of Yayoi Kusama's design.
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AI showed corridors and walls full of white polka dots against red, Kusama's most popular combination of colours.
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Repetitive polka dots and pumpkin motifs of Kusama produce a trippy, meditative feeling.
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94 -year-old Yayoi Kusama is one of the most expensive living artists in the world, who works primarily in sculpture and installation.
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Kusama is a self-described obsessional artist. Known to fill spaces with her repetitve polka dot patterns. She says, "Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos."
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Kusama suffers from depersonalisation disorder and has been voluntarily residing in a psychiatric ward in Tokyo for the past four decades.
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Kusama's polka dots are a recreation of the dense field of dots and flashes of light that she started hallucinating at the age of 10.
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January 2023 saw a collaboration between luxury brand Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama, with giant Yayoi Kusama lookalike sculptures installed at its various stores.