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Author: Klaus Podoll, Markus Dahlem, Sofia Greene	09. August 2009
Edited by: Klaus Podoll, Markus Dahlem, Sofia Greene

Stacy Alexander

Artist's Web Site

Stacy Alexander, Reading About Yayoi Kusama, 2008. "This is for Day #4 of the Jen Worden Art Challenge. It is me... reading about Yayoi Kusama, one of my favorite artists. I have written an entry about her on my art blog at stacyalexander.blogspot.com." © 2008 Stacy Alexander

"Stacy Alexander is contemplating the art of Yayoi Kusama."

(Stacy Alexander, Artist's webpage at plaxo, August 9, 2009)

"Since I was a child I have been in love with the work of Yayoi Kusama. Her art includes sculptures, books, performance art, installations and photo collages. Kusama is nearing 80 now and seldom allows herself to be photographed. Seeing her recently in a documentary about Marc Jacobs, (one of my favorite designers) [see here, here, here, here, here and here, with Kusama featuring in part 6], prompted me to write today's entry about her." [more]

(Stacy Alexander, LISTEN TO MY ART BEAT - Observations of a cross-disciplinary artist, My Hero - Yayoi Kusama, February 24, 2008; additions in square brackets by Klaus Podoll)

"When I was ten or eleven years old [ca. 1965/1966], I visited the art section of a local university library with my cousin and observed a publicity flyer for a gallery in New York [Castellane Gallery] that was featuring one of Kusama's pieces in which she had attached 3-d objects all over an ordinary baby carriage. [Cf. Yayoi Kusama, Baby Carriage, 1964, repainted ca. 1966 (see here). In November 1965, Baby Carriage was included in the Floor Show: Kusama one-person exhibition at the Castellane Gallery on Madison Avenue, New York.] The piece caught my attention because it looked familiar to me, as though someone else was speaking a language that I believed only I knew. As a child, I had a proclivity toward either adding dots or small 3-d objects to normal household objects to replicate the images that I would see when I closed my eyes prior to the onset of a headache or as the headache subsided. After the headache had ended, I could still visualize the dot patterns and patterns of what appeared as protrusions of multiples, so I tried to recreate them. For example, I decorated the handle of my father's saw with pink, yellow and white polka dots and I attached small plastic soldiers to the outside surfaces of my Uncle's crutches."

(Stacy Alexander, E-Mail to Klaus Podoll, August 23, 2009; additions in square brackets by Klaus Podoll)

"You are correct in that I do, indeed, share the phenomenon of migraine auras with Kusama. They manifest themselves as patterns of dots and bright colors early in the onset of the headache. However, both the headaches and the patterns have lessened in severity over the last decade or so when I changed my diet and stopped eating foods that contain artificial preservatives and additives."

(Stacy Alexander, E-Mail to Klaus Podoll, August 9, 2009)

References

Podoll K. Elective affinities between migraine-inspired artists. Lecture at the 14th Congress of the International Headache Society in Philadelphia, September 12, 2009 (see here)

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