Concrete Imagry at the Kusama Exhibit

     There were two main different kinds of concrete imagry for me at the Kusama exhibit: Things that I saw, and  things that I heard. The very first thing was when I walked through the doors of MFAH and saw a giant Pumpkin in the center of the room. It was yellow with a pattern of purposefully placed polka dots around the whole sculpture. This really caught my eye, because unlike the other works that I saw immediately on the walls which were very abstract and brightly colored, the patterns made it more calming to me than the vibrant colors and randomly placed designs. The rest of the concrete imagry in the Kusama exhibit came from inside the infinity rooms.

     As soon as I stepped inside the first room, I was hit with sights and then sounds. I first noticed the brightly colored sculptures abstractly placed around the room, then I noticed that the mirrors on the walls of the room made the scluptures go on forever, true to the name: infinity room. It was a breathtaking sight, made even more so when I realized that the tentacle shaped sculptures protruding from the floor and ceiling changed colors, making the whole room look different every few seconds. The second part of concrete imagry in this room was the sound. While we were in the room, there was a poem by Kusama being spoken in Japanese from the speakers in the room. This was a more gradual realization, something that was very important to the room, but you didn't really notice it until you focused on it. It made the atmosphere of the room and the art very different than if it wasn't there. This room overwlmed my senses, and made me wish that I could stay in there for much longer than just the allotted one to two minutes.

     The next room was much simpler and smaller than the first, but was somehow even more breathtaking and inspiring. In this room the concrete imagry hit both my eyes and ears at the same time. The sights were the many hanging lights, that looked like they were floating in the darkness. They slowly brightened and faded, and at one point disappeared entirely, leaving us in pitch black, before they slowly came back on. The concrete imagry for my ears was the silence rather than the sound of the room. The silence was beautiful, and gave a very solemn and majestic air to the room, especially when the lights started to come back on after having been out. This room was amazing! I wish I could have stood in there for hours in the silence and watched the lights brighten and fade.

     Overall, I had a great time at the Kusama exhibit, and the concrete imagry for my ears and eyes was wonderful.