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Yayoi Kusama with Joseph Cornell in New York, 1970
“Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.”
-Joseph Cornell
“Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love.”
- Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama and Joseph Cornell
Despite presiding over orgies, Kusama had a fear of sex, perhaps because she had suffered from her father’s philandering, and remained abstinent throughout her life. So it was that when she met Joseph Cornell, an odd-duck loner 26 years her senior, who lived with his domineering mother in Flushing, Queens, the two struck up an intense, albeit platonic relationship.
Cornell became besotted by Kusama, flooding her mailbox with letters and personalized collages, and calling her on the phone constantly.
They became close, often spending time at Cornell’s mother’s home in Queens, passing the day sketching each other in the nude. Of course, his mother deeply disapproved of this, and apparently once poured a bucket of water over them as they sat kissing beneath the backyard quince tree.
After some time Kusama took a step back, feeling the situation had got claustrophobic, but the two isolated, driven, visionary misfits remained close until his death in 1972.
Kusama was deeply affected by Cornell’s death. She returned to Japan, and in 1977 checked herself into the Seiwa Hospital for the Mentally Ill, where she eventually took up permanent residence. She has been living at the hospital ever since, going to work in her studio only a short distance away. Cornell’s influence did not end with his death, however, since he had given her boxes of magazine cuttings and other materials which she subsequently used to make a series of luminous collages. These feature elements of his style including surrealist cutouts, layered with her signature pattern of polka dots and infinity nets.
- thanks to Letters from Athens
Photo:
Yayoi Kusama with Joseph Cornell in New York, 1970
Courtesy Yayoi Kusama Studio, Inc.
The asexual to transgender to non binary to radfem to asexual pipeline
Well, Kevin is rich, so there’s that.
herman invited anise over to watch a movie, but he didn’t seem too interested.
:3!
happy ( late ) halloween of the two dorks
Are you looking for anyone in the Toronto area to make content with.
Hell No! I am not lookin for anyone for anything.
my subs are like my LD Bfs/gfs and I could never do them like that.