"Highly affected by [Joseph Cornell's] passing, she started a series of works featuring elements of his style including surrealist cutouts, collages, layered with her signature pattern of polka dots and infinity nets. These works revert back to her interest in her early active years of organism-like tentacles, spermatazoids, cilia, and microscopic shapes. The works are darker in color with an eerie, melancholic tone but calm in feeling. Cornell's influence on Kusama's works was apparent and illustrate a relationship in which two isolated visionaries found solace in each other's equally mad worlds."