The provocative Pop artist Jeff Koons began his “Gazing Balls” series in 2013, affixing mirrored blue hand-blown glass balls to replicas of classical sculptures. The gazing ball—a convention from eighteenth-century garden design—encourages viewers to contemplate the present, as their image and surroundings are reflected in the mirrored surface of the ball. “I see them as devices of connecting” said Koons.