Installation was in the Raval off the Roman Wall, at c/ Sots Tinent Navarro, below c/ Jaume I, near the Jaume Metro Station.
This site is a pedestrian walkway cut-through nearby a metro stop. The small walkway is a border between the original 4th century Roman walls and newer turn of the century construction that defines modern Barcelona. On top of the Roman construction are layers of Medieval construction from the 13th and 14th Century.
Against the Roman wall the ball lunged over a busy sidewalk. Everyone going by reached out, took pictures, jumped into it, or took shelter. My favorite was the businessman who discreetly reached behind him to touch it as he passed, a secret moment. Both a marker of place and a piece of magnetic tactile presence, this was the RedBall
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