For Immediate Release · 2023
Ken Kelleher Installs Spiral Vortex, a 7.5-Metre Mirror-Polished Sculpture, at the St. Regis Kanai
A monumental stainless steel work becomes a defining feature of the resort where sea, sky and vegetation converge.
Cancún, Mexico
CANCÚN — Internationally recognized sculptor Ken Kelleher, also known as Anchorball, has installed Spiral Vortex, a 7.5-metre mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture, at the St. Regis Kanai Resort. Part of Kelleher’s Elemental practice, the work transforms a sweeping gesture of movement into a monumental, highly reflective form.
The sculpture’s mirrored skin transforms with its surroundings, capturing shifting clouds, tides of light and the colour of the coast, so that the work is never experienced in precisely the same way twice. Its silhouette gives the resort a singular sculptural identity recognizable from a distance.
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On the coast, the light changes constantly. Spiral Vortex was made to answer it — to hold the sky, the water and the movement of people on its surface, so the sculpture feels alive from morning to night.— Ken Kelleher (aka Anchorball)
For developers and hospitality groups, the commission demonstrates how a monumental sculpture can define the identity of a property, anchor a landscape and create a lasting emblem for a destination.
Spiral Vortex is part of Kelleher’s ongoing Elemental series, in which natural forces are distilled into resolved abstract forms engineered for permanence in significant architectural and natural settings.
