Yayoi Kusama (b 1929) is a renowned Japanese artist, who is still actively creating. In her early childhood she loved to draw, but her parents didn’t support her interest in art. Later they did allow her to study art. In the late 1950s she moved to New York and she had her first exhibition in the big city in 1959. As a Japanese female artist she had to prove herself a lot in the art world, where the white male artist was dominating at the time. Actually it can be said that Kusama inspired many of her fellow artists at the time, including Andy Warhol. Alas Kusama’s artworks didn’t receive much praise unlike the male artists, who were copying her. Kusama was a true innovator in the 1960s as she was one of the first, who did performances, for example she protested against the Vietnam war using art. Kusama can be seen as a princess of big colourful polka dots in art because the polka dots are a constant motif in her art. In her own words, the planet Earth is just a polka dot among million stars in the cosmos and polka dots are in her view a way to infinity. The topic of infinity began already in her childhood, when she had a vision of flowers, who were talking to her. The heads of the flowers looked like polka dots and there were so many of them that it was as if they carried her to infinity. Hence painting and using polka dots in paintings, on clothes, sculptures etc is her way to be part of the bigger universe and infinity. For Kusama, pumpkins are like Campbell soup cans were for Andy Warhol, everyday objects to depict in art.