In the mid-1970s, Kusama developed a body of work that can be understood as a form of pictorial self-affirmation, to which "Red River inside my Eyelids" belongs. These works read as concentrated, intimate counterparts to her earlier artistic excesses of the 1960s, when her art was determined by large-scale, space-filling installations and happenings, including a stripped bar personnel. Their net-like, flowing structures can be seen as a continuation of the "Infinity Nets"—yet here, infinity no longer expands into space but is folded back into the body.

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Private collection, Japan