This work is a photo by artist Gabriel Orozco.
The piece is called Pelota in Agua (Ball in Water), 1994.
I love the light patterns he creates in this piece. I especially appreciate his process: that he takes a ball floating in a puddle to suggest a celestial object in a cloud-streaked sky. I enjoy his work, and I'm inspired that he creates in many mediums: sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, and video. Orozco's pieces are playful and lyrical. He often draws on found objects for his inspiration.
A few years ago the Guggenheim in NY had an exhibit entitled "Moving Pictures" with Orozco, and artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Ann Hamilton, Kara Walker, Shirin Neshat. Notes from the Guggenheim's exhibit are a good description of Orozco's process: Sometimes, he transforms the ordinary just by the act of naming, as he does with titles such as Pulpo (Octopus, 1991) which bestows a symbolic, associative meaning onto a tangle of pipes, and Dos parejas (Two Couples, 1990) which anthropomorphizes pairs of clay vases.
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