In 1969-1970, I designed and built a house for psychiatrist Maarten Reinink, located on Koning Willem III Straat in Bunnik, the Netherlands. The house included a large studio, and Reinink invited artists to live and work in the house with the condition that they would leave a work of art behind after their residency. Right after the house was built, at the end of 1970, photographer Florian Lem visited to take pictures for a publication in the architectural magazine Werk based in Zurich. It was this particular moment that I got to meet the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

Maarten Reinink visited me every Friday afternoon to discuss the developments of the house. One day he told me that Kusama wished to exhibit an infinity room at the next Documenta in Kassel in 1972. She wanted to show a model of this room in Kassel. As Reinink knew that I always created models of my work prior to the actual creation, he asked me if we could make such a model. This I appealed to me and therefore I decided to make a beautiful model on a 1:5 scale with switchable flashing lights.

On a Saturday morning, Kusama visited to thank me for all the work and it was in that moment that she handed me the present work.