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Nets – Infinity, 2004Acrylic on canvas, 161.9 × 161.9 cm (63¾ × 63¾ in.)© Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
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“I paint nets to try to escape from my obsessional neurosis, but they also express the infinity of the universe.”
– Yayoi Kusama
Nets – Infinity reflects Kusama’s lifelong pursuit of boundlessness through repetition. Each looping brushstroke is both a mark of compulsion and a gesture toward the infinite, dissolving the edges of the canvas and drawing the viewer into an unending field. For Kusama, the act of painting nets was never purely aesthetic but a way of channelling her inner visions into a language that could express the scale of the cosmos as well as the depths of the mind.