These massively scaled plants delight and astonish with their splashes of hypnotic color and distinctive polka-dots. Created by Yayoi Kusama, these fantastical flowers assume near humanlike poses. In some works, the leaves extend like fingers straining outward. In others, the stems thrust petals skyward in heroic triumph.

While grounded in familiar forms, these earthbound sculptures evoke an otherworldly presence. For Kusama, flowers symbolize the duality of life and death and a balance between the abstract and the figurative.

Yayoi Kusama is a contemporary artist who makes paintings, sculptures, performances, and installations. Dots are a common theme throughout her work—a pattern that she has utilized in her work since she was a child in an effort to escape trauma and anxiety.

Since the 1960s, Kusama has been creating Infinity mirror rooms that provoke a sense of boundlessness and transcendence through extreme repetition.