Infinity Net (Blue), Kusama 26

The Infinity Net is a foundational pictorial structure for Kusama, originating in the white-on-white canvases she began painting in 1959 shortly after arriving in New York. By 1983 the motif had evolved through several decades of variation, and this screenprint translates the hand-built accumulation of looping arc-marks into a flat, mechanically registered image on paper. The print likely presents a field of small scalloped strokes covering the entire sheet against a saturated blue ground, with the negative spaces reading as the 'net' itself. Screenprinting suits this vocabulary: the squeegeed ink sits as a uniform layer, allowing the eye to register pattern rather than gesture. Where the painted Nets carry the trace of Kusama's own obsessive mark-making, the printed version stabilises the system as a graphic image. The work is part of the artist's ongoing translation of studio motifs into editioned form during her productive Tokyo period after returning from New York in 1973, and connects directly to her themes of self-obliteration and infinite repetition.