You may have noticed a recent tweet in which her holiness, Adele, gave a surprising shoutout to a legendary visual artist named Yayoi Kusama.
Turns out, Adele incorporated imagery of the Japanese artist's hallucinatory hall of mirrors (from her well-known "Infinity Mirror Room" installation) into her performance at the 2016 Brit Awards.
In the song, "When We Were Young," Adele looks back on her life from childhood to present day, examining the ways she has changed and the shapes she's taken. When she discovered Yayoi Kusama's glittering installation, she couldn't help but notice a connection, seeing herself reflected in infinite angles, each capturing a different perspective.
"I definitely felt like, standing in that room for an hour, I saw things in myself and of myself that I haven’t noticed before," she says in the video below.
Below, Adele discusses her love for Queen Kusama, who she strangely discovered through a Katy Perry Instagram, as well as Los Angeles' new free museum The Broad, where the "Infinity Mirrored Room" now resides.
She also talks about the roles art and museums have played in her life. The daughter of an aspiring artist, Adele was constantly dragged to museums as a kid, something she now associates with her desire to express creatively.
Hear Adele wax poetic on artsy stuff below, and if you don't know about the magical being who is Yayoi Kusama, remedy the situation immediately.
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