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Repetitive-Vision, 1963Stamps on paper, 50.8 × 83.1 cm (20 × 32¾ in.)© Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
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“My life is a repetition of images. The repetition itself becomes the vision.”
– Yayoi Kusama
The composition consists of rows of airmail stamps systematically arranged to cover the paper’s surface. By repeating a standardised image across a large field, Kusama creates a dense pattern that functions visually like her Infinity Nets, but with physical objects instead of painted marks. The enlarged scale of Repetitive-Vision compared to her smaller Airmail–Accumulation highlights the ambition of the piece, turning common postage stamps into an all-over field that blurs the line between image, object, and surface. Works such as this demonstrate her ability to adapt the logic of repetition to multiple formats, situating her alongside developments in both Pop Art and Minimalism while remaining distinctively her own.