The installation was very successful in the sense that people came and interacted with it. The piece seemed to have an overall appeal to the gallery patrons drawing many different people. Over the 4 hours we talked to at least 20 people about how the piece functioned and the theory behind its construction. It was amazing to hear all the different combinations of sounds produced by the audience. Richard Banel pointed out that there are 33 million combinations of object relations. That was a statistic that we had never considered before. Also many thanks to Steven Wright for capturing the amazing moments of Alex Ball and her children playing with the piece. We had never anticipated actual children having a chance to play with the piece. It raised some new and fascinating questions, given that the piece was primarily a reflection of late teens nostalgia for childhood, watching children interact with it allowed for a completely new experience, fundamentally removed from the initial conceptual framework.
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