"an Escape" social network interactive platform encourage users to express their "fear", either different or repetitive fears. The user experience is inspired by Kusama's "self- therapy", the repetition as expression and therapy. Users are able to connect to and communicate with each other, to know about others' fear, to create a sense of "I'm not alone".

"an escape" home page
- the most updated users' "fear" entries is placed at the front
- overlook of numbers of types of fear
- browse by fear types
- rollover for fear entries, click for user detail (profile page)

User profile page:
- Create profile: photo, nude body shape and overlay dot color
- Enter "fear", the more fear entries, the more dots, "fear" can be repetitive; different color different types of fear; size of dot indicates entries' date
- Data visualization provides a overlook of user's different fears
- "I'm not alone" is the connection to other users: find match, send message...

Though Kusama's work is considered based in Conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and as a leader in the avant-garde movement.; she herself thinks that her works dose not belong to any group. Kusama has depersonalization since she was young, she paints her hallucination in quantity as a method of escape from her fear. "If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago." quoted from an interview at ArtReview.com in 2007. The methodology of her works is considered as a kind of self-therapy (Akira Tatehata in conversation with Yayoi Kusama)

Instructor: Barry Katz, Turri Michael