Untitled
1956
gouache
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1956
gouache
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
You see a grid of tiny, nervous loops—red, blue, green—covering the whole sheet like chicken-scratch on graph paper. Kusama made this in 1956, right before she left Japan for New York. The loops feel like a quiet rebellion: no sky, no people, just endless repetition. She later called these marks her “infinity nets,” a way to trap the noise in her head. To see how she turned these scribbles into giant pumpkins and mirrored rooms, look up more work by Yayoi Kusama.
