wood, metal, marbles, rubber, branches, acrylic paint, 2026

The great hero Hercules was sent to capture the Ceryneian Hind for the third of his Twelve Labors. According to most accounts, Heracles knew that the hind was sacred to Artemis and therefore made sure to take it alive. But there was at least one version of the myth in which he slew the creature.

On January 29, 2024, five-year-old Hind Rajab was murdered, alongside her family, in a brutal act of genocidal violence by the Israeli Defense Forces. Hind survived the initial attack but was left trapped in the wreckage, surrounded by the dead bodies of her family members. Her cries for help, captured during a live call to emergency services, were broadcast worldwide. The inhumanity of this calculated act reverberated globally, showing Israel's systematic and indiscriminate targeting of civilians in Gaza.