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Cloud Considering, 1991–1992Acrylic on canvas, diptych, each 162 × 130 cm (63 × 51 1/8 in.), overall 162 × 260 cm (63 × 102 3/8 in.)© Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
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“Accumulation is the result of my obsession, and obsession is the wellspring of my art.”
– Yayoi Kusama
Through this diptych, Kusama transforms the ephemeral image of drifting clouds into a meditation on the infinite. The fleeting quality of clouds, which shift and dissolve almost as soon as they form, becomes a metaphor for the transitory nature of human experience. By repeating forms across two monumental canvases, she turns impermanence into pattern, allowing what is momentary to take on a sense of timelessness. In doing so, Kusama bridges the physical and the psychological, the fleeting and the eternal, creating a work that speaks both to her private obsessions and to universal themes of change, continuity, and infinity.