Located at the Phoenix Art Museum is a unique work that was purchased “with funds donated by Jan and Howard Hendler” and created by Yayoi Kusama in 2005. The piece is titled You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies and is a “mixed media installation with LED lights” that was created as a permanent piece to the Phoenix Art Museum’s collection. The work can be found in the South Wing on the Upper Level in the Contemporary Art section of the museum. The intention of this paper is to view, You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies, and find that there is a sense of one gaining enrichment for the soul and humbleness of the mind through deterioration of the body.
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Her work Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away is similar to the piece being discussed, though it is a smaller space that is utilized and received far more publicity in their respective exhibits. Those that attended the 2015 installations of the Infinity Mirrored Room in Los Angeles, CA or Moscow were left to wait in long lines that took several hours to suffer through before gaining entry to the space to experience the sense of wonder. Unlike the Infinity Mirrored Room installation, You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies is not listed under her installation works on Artsy or on her public website and thus comes as a surprise when found among the works in the Phoenix Art Museum gallery with no wait time whatsoever for such a famous, living, female, avant-garde artist. If one should wish to experience this euphoric feeling for themselves, they need only look to the Phoenix Art Museum to find themselves obliterated in a never-ending sea of
Once the viewer has made their …show more content…
Her work Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away is similar to the piece being discussed, though it is a smaller space that is utilized and received far more publicity in their respective exhibits. Those that attended the 2015 installations of the Infinity Mirrored Room in Los Angeles, CA or Moscow were left to wait in long lines that took several hours to suffer through before gaining entry to the space to experience the sense of wonder. Unlike the Infinity Mirrored Room installation, You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies is not listed under her installation works on Artsy or on her public website and thus comes as a surprise when found among the works in the Phoenix Art Museum gallery with no wait time whatsoever for such a famous, living, female, avant-garde artist. If one should wish to experience this euphoric feeling for themselves, they need only look to the Phoenix Art Museum to find themselves obliterated in a never-ending sea of