Dot Dot Dotty About Spots!

All too often my weekends are spent in a haze hiding from sunlight after tearing up the dance floor somewhere in London. Failing to make it to this exhibition over the last month, I decided dancing was not sufficient exercise for my body or mind and replaced the wild nights out for some culture, interspersed with sweating it out at Lomax gym for 6 weeks. The vodka martinis are sorely missed but Yayoi Kasuma's extraordinary dotty world gave me the equivalent buzz of 3 of them! Completely mad and madly eccentric this Japanese artist incorporates spots and rather fallic shapes in everything from sculpture to canvas to re-upholstering! They say, and I can confirm, her work has connotations of obsession which must partly stem from her decision to voluntarily live in a psychiatric institution. The fluorescent pink "sperm" painting was my favourite but the mirage mirrored room filled with changing lights and the UV sitting room covered in glowing spots will definitely feature at my next dinner party, and in my world of wonderland dreams Kasuma would be sitting at my table!