Yayoi Kusama's message to Covid-19: 'Disappear from this earth'

The veteran Japanese avant-garde artist has issued a poem of defiance in the teeth of the ‘terrible monster’, the coronavirus pandemic

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Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s most popular living artists, has responded to the global coronavirus crisis with a message of defiance.

The reclusive 91-year-old, celebrated for her polka-dot artworks and installations, has written what she says is a message to the whole world.

Today, with the world facing Covid-19, I feel the necessity to address it with this message:

A MESSAGE FROM YAYOI KUSAMA TO THE WHOLE WORLD

Though it glistens just out of reach, I continue to pray for hope to shine through

Its glimmer lighting our way

This long-awaited great cosmic glow

Now that we find ourselves on the dark side of the world

The gods will be there to strengthen the hope we have spread throughout the universe

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