This attention-grabbing street performance by Yayoi Kusama took place in the vicinity of the legendary Japanese artist’s New York City studio on 14th Street, and was captured by the photographer Eikoh Hosoe from a position several stories above the artwork. Kusama has said that the piece—which sees her being engulfed by one of her signature, dot-covered sculptures, wearing pigtails and a neat black dress—expresses “the experience of her body as simultaneously in, and continuous with, the surrounding environment, an idea central to her notion of ‘self-obliteration'” (as per The Hirshhorn Museum, in Washington D.C.).
