[Gazing balls] are devices of connecting. I want to participate, I always just wanted to be involved in a dialogue with the avant garde. This is my family, these are the artists that I have interest in, the joy that has enriched by life.” –Jeff Koons

Gazing Ball (da Vinci Mona Lisa) is an archival pigment print of the Mona Lisa from Koon’s Gazing Ball series. Each work in the series is a recreated painting of a great masterpiece in Western art history with a blue hand-blown glass gazing ball situated atop a painted aluminum shelf attached to the front of the painting. The shiny blue sphere in front of each famous image reflects both the viewer and the painting, encouraging audience participation and connecting them to cultural history. Koon has stated that the gazing balls “represents the vastness of the universe and at the same time the intimacy of right here, right now.”