Yayoi Kusama // My Hearts Abode, 2016

  • Yayoi Kusama, My Heart’s Abode, 2016. Large square acrylic painting, 194 × 194 × 7 cm, from the My Eternal Soul series, with vivid abstract motifs and bold colours exploring love, infinity, and the inner world.
    My Heart’s Abode, 2016
    Acrylic on canvas, 194 × 194 × 7 cm (76 3/8 × 76 3/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
    © Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
     
    Yayoi Kusama’s My Heart’s Abode (2016) is a large acrylic on canvas measuring 194 × 194 × 7 cm, created as part of her expansive My Eternal Soul series. The work radiates with bold colour and dynamic biomorphic forms, its surface alive with the obsessive detail that characterises Kusama’s late painting practice. The title suggests a deeply personal reflection, turning the canvas into both an emotional space and a visual field of infinite rhythm.
     
    Like many works in the series, My Heart’s Abode balances psychological intensity with dazzling visual energy. The interplay of vivid tones and organic motifs transforms private emotion into a universal image of endurance and creativity, reaffirming Kusama’s lifelong conviction that art is both a form of confession and a source of renewal.

  • “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    The painting exemplifies Kusama’s ability to fuse personal sentiment with her broader artistic vision. Within its vivid biomorphic shapes and hypnotic repetition lies an emotional resonance, suggesting the canvas as a sanctuary of feeling as well as form. My Heart’s Abode demonstrates how the My Eternal Soul series becomes not only a visual exploration of infinity, but also an intimate diary of the artist’s thoughts and emotions, rendered on a monumental scale.