Lights and Mirrors

Imagine walking into a pitch black room seeing nothing but floating lights. You know there are walls so you blindly reach out with your hands to feel for some sort of boundary but you look around and all you see is an infinite span of colorful lights. What you know in your head is fooled by the illusion of your surroundings. This game between your mind and your sight is the experience of Yayoi Kusama's "You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies". It's a popular exhibit in the Phoenix Art Museum that fills you with mixed emotions of discomfort and wonder! Visiting this room is like immersing yourself in a Koan that you could see and touch but even with your senses, you could not fully comprehend your surroundings.