In 2005, Yayoi Kusama created You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies. Created in the 2005 addition to The Phoenix Museum of Art – it has become a popular work of art in the collection. Using mixed media, the room is made up of mirrors on the ceiling, floor, and walls that reflect the glow of the tiny LED’s hanging in the room by small strings. In this work of art, You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies, Kusama helps us see the world in new ways.
The traditional role that You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies fulfills is that artists help us see the world in new or innovative ways. Kusama helps us realize how small we are in the grand scheme of things. The whole room reflects Kusama’s subject matter, the sense of “the infinity of endless time.” (Sayre 5.) Kusama describes her hallucinations: “…I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows, and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body, and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of endless time…” (4) The origin of her artwork came from coping with an obsessive hallucination when she first experienced as a child. Being in the presence of …show more content…
I enjoy Kusama’s style of art, along with most artists three-dimensional art. I appreciate artwork that is extraordinarily large or is three-dimensional in some sort. However, I surround myself with artwork that differs from what I appreciate. I have a lot of artwork of my own in my room, but I’d like to try to make something that I would appreciate more than what I do now. What makes a piece of art interesting to me is that it has to have character. It should capture an emotion in it or a story to learn beyond what’s on the canvas (or any medium you
The traditional role that You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies fulfills is that artists help us see the world in new or innovative ways. Kusama helps us realize how small we are in the grand scheme of things. The whole room reflects Kusama’s subject matter, the sense of “the infinity of endless time.” (Sayre 5.) Kusama describes her hallucinations: “…I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows, and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body, and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of endless time…” (4) The origin of her artwork came from coping with an obsessive hallucination when she first experienced as a child. Being in the presence of …show more content…
I enjoy Kusama’s style of art, along with most artists three-dimensional art. I appreciate artwork that is extraordinarily large or is three-dimensional in some sort. However, I surround myself with artwork that differs from what I appreciate. I have a lot of artwork of my own in my room, but I’d like to try to make something that I would appreciate more than what I do now. What makes a piece of art interesting to me is that it has to have character. It should capture an emotion in it or a story to learn beyond what’s on the canvas (or any medium you