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Yayoi Kusama Flowers

Experience
Orchard Trail
FREE
No Ticket Required
A large, colorful flower made of painted steel posed like a rearing snake on Orchard Trail at Crystal Bridges.
Kusama, Yayoi, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, 2023, stainless steel and urethane paint. Private collection.

These massively scaled plants delight and astonish with their splashes of hypnotic color and distinctive polka-dots. Created by Yayoi Kusama, these fantastical flowers assume near humanlike poses. In some works, the leaves extend like fingers straining outward. In others, the stems thrust petals skyward in heroic triumph.

While grounded in familiar forms, these earthbound sculptures evoke an otherworldly presence. For Kusama, flowers symbolize the duality of life and death and a balance between the abstract and the figurative.

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