At 97, the Japanese artist leaves behind a body of work that transformed dots, repetition, and infinity into a language recognized around the world Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama pictured at her installation "The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away" at the David Zwirner gallery in New York in 2013. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Yayoi Kusama spent decades transforming what could have been perceived as a limitation into raw material for creation. Her dots, infinite nets, pumpkins, and m