Yayoi Kusama's Pumpkin Obsession

Yayoi Kusama has carried her obsessive compulsions ever since her childhood in Japan, when she first experienced the hallucinations that would recur throughout her life; it was by representing and replicating them that she was able to confront them. “I fight pain, anxiety and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art,” she explains today. Her condition, as she...