The joy from Yayoi’s dots is hard to avoid, her glowing oeuvre being the current obsession— part of a centuries-old conversation— with the theme of the dot, a form that can never degrade as it is a representation of the cell, the sun, or even more simply the presence of life. A philosophical fountain of youth, as it were, and a fitting theme for an artist who is attempting to erase the lines between her self and her art in this work Self- Obliteration No. 2 (Red Dots).
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