The Ananke Group

This is a series reborn from chaos, a testament to healing and tenacity.

There were ten original sculptures made from laser cut triangles in 2022. I was going for a Neptune and Jupiter vibe with the colors. I ended up moving between three cities in a year and a half and had the originals stored in a secure moving box.

By the time I settled they had fallen apart into chunks and pieces. I used the wrong cement when they were first put together, only one original survived fully intact. I took various pieces of each sculpture and glued these different pieces together to produce eight entirely new pieces of work, so named the Ananke Group.

The Ananke Group itself is a collection of moon-like satellites that orbit around Jupiter, and are generally understood to have the same common origin. It is believed that the group was formed when an asteroid was captured by Jupiter, struck an existing moon, and then subsequently fragmented by that collision.

This series was then named The Ananke Group, after the shattered debris from one of Jupiter's moons.