Yayoi Kusama's obsession with dots began in her childhood when she suffered from hallucinatory visions. This illness made the world she saw appear as if it were separated by a net of dots. Through her paintings, sculptures, performance art, and installations, we can see that she aims to represent an autobiographical state of mind in her works. She deeply believes that all things in the universe are made of dot-like cells, atoms, and molecules. And the "net" that links the "dots" expands into infinity, just like the universe. She thinks that these "dots" constitute the universe and an "infinity net" as well as represent her own life.

In 1959, during her stay in New York, Kusama exhibited her work "Infinity Nets" for the first time. This caused quite a stir and excited a minimalist movement in New York, the avant-garde city of the time. In 1960, Kusama became one of the few, US-based artists invited to participate in an internationally anticipated minimalist art exhibition at the Städtisches Museum in Germany, where her "Infinity Nets" was shown amongst the works of masters like Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and Mark Rothko.

This year, the Tate Modern gallery in London is holding a retrospective exhibition for Yayoi Kusama, showing her paintings, sculptures, installations, and films. This rare honor has again put her in an irreplaceable position in the international art world.