Anna Moore on making gear arrangements that look like mandala

Anna Moore’s photographs don’t begin with images. They begin with questions. Questions about trauma, mathematics, memory, structure, and the invisible ways emotion lives inside the body. The New York and Chicago-based artist creates intricate photographic works by layering gears, anatomical models, X-rays, CT scans, transparencies, and light projections into mandala-like compositions that feel both scientific and deeply emotional. Her process moves between photography, abstraction, mathematics,