It is curious why Kusama chooses to obliterate with polka dots, and it seems to relate to vision and ways of seeing. When vision is lost or obscured, such as with loss of consciousness, sometimes it goes in increments before total loss. The polka dots recall sun spots in the eyes, or stars that obscure, or an incoming grid that obscures vision.
        Kusama employs a radical notion of putting spots on things, and changing the way everything looks, flattened and decorated. We are also caught in a state of partially obscured vision.
        Kusama has had mental illness, or 'madness' as the Surrealists liked to call it. This state of being which is sometimes romanticized in the field of art, can distort vision and perception, as if the mind is under the influence of hallucinogens. Being in an altered state of mind can allow for one to see differently and see things others don't see. This could be one reason Kusama was in her element in the 1960s, with its Andy Warhol Pop Art, drug culture, and psychedelic colors, she originated her dizzying and original art.