A weekend in one of my favourite cities, and an awesome art show. Yayoi Kusama is a fantastic, amazing artist with a very different view of the world. She’s 95, still producing art which is thought provoking and beautiful.
Just some of the images and immersive installations.
Born middle of the 1920’s in Japan, she would have seen the impact of Hiroshima in n her homeland, then the 1960’s and 70’s in New York had a really clear impact on her. There’s a desire to immerse into the artwork and universe which does get me asking from what she needed to escape. She returned home to Japan, found a psychiatric hospital in the late 1970s, checked herself in and has lived there ever since, able to create her art with the support she needs to function.
I’m haven’t written much about the Busselton Jetty swim; then reflected that swimming a mile after walking a couple of miles, to the jetty and up the jetty, didn’t seem much more than a good effort and a fun weekend. In itself that’s worth reflecting on, and realising the impact of all those hours of exercise, physio and strengthening is really paying off.
I realised a few months ago how my baseline has changed, I now view myself as a healthy person who can’t do some activities rather than a mildly disabled person who can manage to function and hide the disability.
My Longest Journey 