What Is Infinity Mirrored Room 'Love Forever'?

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1. Infinity Mirrored Room – Love Forever (1996)
a. is a box with a peephole that is covered with mirrors, producing an infinite number of reflections. Represents Kusama’s monomaniac fears in her hallucinations of a world contaminated by polka dots and nets.
2. White Infinity Net painting (1961) Infinity Net Series
a. an obsessional, monochromatic large painting that is 33-foot long expresses the artist’s fear of self-obliteration and serves as an expression of infinite time, space and distance. Obsessional and minimalist painting.
3. Accumulation No.2 (1962)
a. Is a sofa bristling with phalluses, which show Kusama’s sexual vision that she feared. Is a sculpture that she refer to as “compulsion furniture” since she is an obsessional artist

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