Dot to Dot - Yayoi Kusama's

Obliteration Room

The Obliteration room, an interactive insulation by Yayoi Kusama. The work of Kusama has taken many different turns in its time, from painting to interactive insulations, but all with one thing common they all use spots. 
You could argue that the work of Kusama is pointillism, where by the artist creates whole images from the use of different colour and toned dots. But Kusama has made this genre into something much more sophisticated and larger on scale. 
The work Obliteration room is an insulation that was made completely interactive to those who viewed the gallery space. 

The gallery was transformed into what looks to be a replica of the contemporary home, however Kusama painted the entire space white, creating a 'blank canvas'. On entering the show the audience is asked to participate in creating one of Kusama's many ponitalsit works. Each person is given stickers that they are allowed to place any where in the room, upon any surface, object or wall that they wish. You can see the results. The room in what you could call stage one, there is a blurring of boundaries between chair leg and wall, wall and book case, however when you reach stage two, you begin to see the lines that define the shapes and spaces that we inhabit. Once we reach stage three we are back at the beginning, there is no definition between objects and we are once again looking at an almost blank room of  pure colour.