Artist Yayoi Kusama

During January the theme for study in Roo’s classroom was Japanese culture. He missed much because of his surgery, but was present when the children were introduced to the work of artist Yayoi Kusama. She is one of Japan’s most noted contemporary artists and her work is easy to spot because it’s filled with spots, or more correctly, dots. She struggles with mental illness and has communicated that her work is a product of hallucinations. Her storied life makes her achievement as the living female artist who’s work sold for a top record figure of $5,100,000, impressive. At Roo’s school, the children created a collage for the classroom inspired by her work, and they had the opportunity to create a room full of dots on the computer by visiting this LINK. In the collage below, Roo’s is the mushroom below the photo of the artist sporting blue hair.