‘I fight pain and fear with art’: how Yayoi Kusama blazed a trail for neurodivergent artists

‘The only method I have found that relieved my illness is to keep creating art’: Remembering Yayoi Kusama

She suffered from hallucinations from childhood and by the age of 10 had created paintings in watercolors, pastels, and oils using polka dot and net motifs that she encountered in her visions