Ego Balls

mirror ball, wire, motion detector, 2003

This piece was installed on one side of a corridor. Sixty four mirror balls were hanging from the ceiling. When someone passed by, a motion detector triggered the balls to vibrate. The balls were moving anxiously with rattling sounds. Viewers could see the shaking reflection of themselves. Influenced by Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, I named the balls “Ego Balls.”