Yayoi Kusama at Museum Ludwig

Pumpkins bring about poetic peace in my mind. Pumpkins talk to me. Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins. That’s how Kusama celebrates her love for pumpkins in the poem On Pumpkins from 2010. Pumpkins, polka dots, infinity nets—all of Kusama’s trademarks can be found in Pumpkin (1991) above. They are the result of her working through the vivid hallucinations she has been suffering from since her childhood.…