Kusama Yayoi has died

This video of her changed my life: https://youtu.be/21NrNdse7nI I realized that art was a way to let my crazy run downhill. It was just a random Youtube recommendation. I’ve been subscribed to the Louisiana Channel ever since. My submission of the video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18338528

I found out about her from the Polkadot blockchain test network called Kusama. Strange but cool way to find out about an amazing artist. Rest in peace.

Sad! I really enjoyed going to the Kusama exhibit with my (now) wife years ago, and my daughter had a Kusama phase when she was about 5 years old and dressed up like her with a hot pink wig and polka dot outbit.

I had an amazing time visiting her exhibit when it came through my town. Being in the mirror rooms was really fun and her glowing glass pumpkins and squashes are playful in form and color and fun to look at. There were unfortunately so many people who insisted on taking photos of themselves inside the mirror rooms that they would drop their phones and break the glass sculptures. How frustrating that people can't just enjoy art directly!

My avatar on GitHub has been of one of her Infinity Rooms for years. https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12610?v=4 I never felt like I had enough time to spend in these spaces. To imagine creating them from scratch…incredible.