The celebrated contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has died aged 97 in a Tokyo hospital. Her pieces were displayed in major museums across the globe. Recurring shapes formed her distinctive trademark, above all dots that enlivened canvases or shone as luminous balls and specks of light within her installations. Yayoi Kusama poses for a photograph inside her Infinity Mirrored Room installation titled ‘The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away.’ (Reuters) Diminutive and known for sporting a scarlet bob wig later in life, Kusama was candid about her mental health struggles, saying she experienced visions and hallucinations of flashing lights, dots and `flowers since childhood. “I still see hallucinations even now,” ​she ⁠told reporters in 2017. Exhibition assistant Kathrin DuBois of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne arranges chess board figures of the installation ‘Pumpkin Chess’ in the Porzellanikon Museum in Selb, southern Germany. (2010 AP) “Dots come flying everywhere — on my dress, the floor, things I’m carrying, throughout the house, the ceiling. And I paint them.” Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, wearing a bright red …