Yayoi Kusama // Going to the Field with Shoes on, 1979

  • Yayoi Kusama, Going to the Field with Shoes On, 1979. Screenprint, 54 × 69 cm, edition of 100. Features Kusama’s characteristic use of bold imagery and rhythmic repetition, blending everyday subject matter with her surreal, patterned style.
    Going to the Field with Shoes On, 1979
    Screenprint, 54 × 69 × 0.5 cm (21 3/10 × 27 1/5 × 1/5 in.), Edition of 100
    © Yayoi Kusama. 
     
    Yayoi Kusama’s Going to the Field with Shoes On (1979) is a screenprint measuring 54 × 69 × 0.5 cm, produced in an edition of 100. Created during a period when Kusama was working in Japan following her return from New York, the print reflects her continued fascination with everyday subjects transformed through her distinctive visual language of repetition, rhythm, and surreal imagination.
     
    The image combines the ordinary with the uncanny, presenting shoes, a recurring motif in Kusama’s work, within a dreamlike composition. By layering the subject with bold outlines and patterned surfaces, she elevates a mundane object into a symbolic form that resonates with themes of identity, memory, and psychological depth.
     
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  • “Accumulation is the result of my obsession, and through it I create a world of my own.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    As with many of her editioned works from the late 1970s, Going to the Field with Shoes On demonstrates Kusama’s ability to fuse the familiar with the surreal. The print captures her ongoing exploration of how domestic and personal objects can be reimagined as emblems of obsession and infinity, transforming the everyday into a site of imaginative possibility.