Circa 1939 and a young Yayoi Kusama returns from a trip to the forest area of Matsumoto where she had collected a delicious looking bounty of beautiful, fairy-tale red mushrooms all covered in white polka-dots. She adds the foraged mushrooms to the pumpkin soup she has gently simmering away on the stovetop. Inquisitive, she takes an exploratory sip or two… the universe explodes around her… and the rest is (art) history… 7200x4114 @200ppi, 26MB This image was created using a selection of text to image AI images made with Adobe Firefly Image (firefly.adobe.com), Midjourney and composited in Adobe Photoshop