Text In visual mediation an artwork by Olafur Eliasson transparent spheres of different sizes act as optical lenses disorientating the gaze of a particular type of viewer It is unclear whether the lens is looking at the viewer or the viewer is looking at

• In 'visual mediation', an artwork by Olafur Eliasson, transparent spheres of different sizes act as optical lenses, disorientating the gaze of a particular type of viewer: It is unclear whether the lens is looking at the viewer or the viewer is looking at the lens thus blurring the binary division between subject and object. The situation of the points of reciprocal view defines a symbiotic relationship in a circuit.
• A prototype of snow globe suggests its ability as optical instrument. Its patent of the technical principle was issued in 1900 by Erwin Perzy, a surgical instrument mechanic and inventor. To magnify the light output in the operating room, he used a cobbler’s ball filled with water and tested grainy substances to optimise the reflection.

The snow globe becomes a container to hold heterogeneous bodies and an optical lens to perform an augmented vision of their becoming in relation.