"My name is Yayoi. I'm an artist and I'd like to tell you my story." So begins the fictionalized first-person narrative about the life and work of avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama who left Japan as a young woman to come to the United States "where artists were doing exciting new things." Yayoi's "new thing" was dots. She put them everywhere in her art, and then expanded to "soft, cushioned shapes ...which I used to fill rooms, boats, and shoes, and cover couches, armchairs, and hats..." Today she continues to make her daring art and she continues to be a celebrated artist. Gilberti depicts Kusama and her work entirely in black-and-white, and still manages to capture the distinctive nature of the unusual artwork of this singular visionary.
(Ages 6-9)