Opening the week prior to her memorail service and unveiling of her memorial stone, the exhibition Poetic Sentiment of Blank Space was a comprehensive retrospective of her life's work in celebration of a life well lived. Family and close friends of the artist gathered on the steps of the museum, near her memorial stone underneath a peach tree to pay their final respects to the Artist and rember a life lived. It was only fitting that one of the main works on canvas shown at the exhibition was an untitled canvas painted in 1959 and was described as the artist as "my husband at the time, Sam Francis, said of this painting, " The diamond shape o the womb, and the red part inside is the baby." I had painted this with the image of a mother cralding a baby in arms. In other words, he was not wrong, the red part in the middle is my daughter, Kayo."
Opening the week prior to her memorail service and unveiling of her memorial stone, the exhibition Poetic Sentiment of Blank Space was a comprehensive retrospective of her life's work in celebration of a life well lived. Family and close friends of the artist gathered on the steps of the museum, near her memorial stone underneath a peach tree to pay their final respects to the Artist and rember a life lived. It was only fitting that one of the main works on canvas shown at the exhibition was an untitled canvas painted in 1959 and was described as the artist as "my husband at the time, Sam Francis, said of this painting, " The diamond shape o the womb, and the red part inside is the baby." I had painted this with the image of a mother cralding a baby in arms. In other words, he was not wrong, the red part in the middle is my daughter, Kayo."
The work was originally shown at the storied Minami Gallery in Tokyo at one of Ms Yokoi's first solo exhibitions in 1961. It was donated from the gallery's estate to the Hinageshi Museum around 2017. The Minami Exhibition was one of the pivotal shows in Ms Yokoi's early career, solidifying her place in art history as she had shown her work in the tokyo space as it was dribving a dialogue in Japan around art, poetry, architecture and showing Western adn Japanese artists among the likes of Jean Fautrier, Ay-O, Sam Francis, Tomio Miki, Jasper Johns, and Isamu Noguchi.