Yokoi's art was an expression of Proustian mnemonics, evoking memories of her past in Japan. Her work reflected both pure abstraction and abstracted landscapes, infused with a sense of homesickness and elegiac yearning.
Despite being an Asian woman in a white, male-dominated art scene, Yokoi's outsider status and her self-sequestration contributed to her fall off the New York art radar. Her impulse for seclusion reflected in her paintings' tranquil beauty.
Yokoi's childhood experiences in Japan, gathering impressions of nature with her father for poetry, influenced her view of art as 'poems written in colors.' Her journey from Japan to California and then New York shaped her artistic career.
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