Curator Jaklyn Babington on Yayoi Kusama

‘Let’s forget ourselves, and become one with the absolute. As we soar through the heavens, we’ll paint each other with polka dots and lose our egos in timeless eternity.’ Yayoi Kusama Jaklyn Babington, National Gallery Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, invites us to slow down and guides us through Yayoi Kusama's SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS while we #MuseumFromHome. nga.gov.au/kusama [#YayoiKusama SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS 2017. Purchased 2018 with the assistance of Andrew and Hiroko Gwinnett ©️ Yayoi Kusama, courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai.]