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Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Oval on a Cosmos Ball
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Held by the artist.

Oval on a Cosmos Ball

Artist/Maker (Japan, b. 1962)
Date2000
Mediumplastic, vinyl and paint with CD-ROM inside
DimensionsOverall: 9 7/8 x 7 3/8 x 7 in. (25.1 x 18.7 x 17.8 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of the Peter Norton Family
Terms
    Object number2002.15
    DescriptionThis piece features a cartoon-like character called Oval, who sits atop a "cosmos ball," Murakami's name for the sphere covered with smiling flowers. The meditating figure is loosely based on a Japanese Buddha sculpture. Its multiple faces embody the full spectrum of human emotions and states of being: happiness, anger, wakefulness, sleep. The cosmos ball holds a CD with music composed and performed especially for this project by the Tokyo-based duo ZakYumiko. Inside is a lotus flower, a form often used as a pedestal for Buddhist deities and a symbol of cosmic consciousness.
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    Collections
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Moche-Huari
    100-800
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Nayarit
    ca. 300 BCE-300 CE
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Bruce Nauman
    1969
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    William Dickey King
    ca. 1960
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    William Dickey King
    not dated
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Alan Saret
    1969
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Peter Voulkos
    1959
    Big Daddy Kane
    Aaron Young
    2014
    Self
    Stefan Brüggemann
    2016
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Debbie Rose Myers
    1997