Anchorball | Elemental

2023: Spiral Vortex for Regis Maya Resorts, Cancun Mexico

7.5 Meter Mirror Finish Stainless

At the Regis Maya in Cancun.

Installed in 2023, Spiral Vortex is a 7.5-meter mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture commissioned for the St. Regis Maya Resort in Cancún, Mexico — a site where sea, sky, and vegetation converge in radiant harmony. When I began Spiral Vortex, I was thinking about the energy of movement itself — how nature never really stands still. The spiral kept returning to me as a universal shape of transformation. You find it everywhere: in shells, whirlpools, galaxies, hurricanes — all these forms that express both creation and dissolution at once. I wanted to capture that tension — the feeling of being pulled inward while expanding outward. The mirror-polished surface lets the sculpture breathe with its surroundings. It’s constantly changing — reflecting clouds, light, and the lush greens of the Riviera Maya. For me, Spiral Vortex is about the continuity between the human and the natural — a moment where stillness, reflection, and movement all exist at once. It’s less a static object than a living presence — a kind of monument to the invisible forces that shape us and everything around us.

The sculpture’s mirrored skin transforms with the environment, capturing shifting clouds, tides of light, and the color of passing hours. In doing so, Spiral Vortex becomes both object and atmosphere — a living register of its surroundings and a meditation on time’s continuous flow. At once monumental and weightless, the work invites contemplation: a portal between inner reflection and outer expansion, stillness and becoming.