Borrowed Dust. This series began when I became a mother and felt the profound responsibility of caring for my son’s life. It brought with it an acute awareness of mortality—my own, and that of the people I love—and a deep recognition of life’s fragility. Alongside this awareness came grief, and an ongoing effort to understand loss.

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This work became a way to process those emotions.

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The spider represents nature’s power and beauty—an overwhelming, generative force. Positioned outside the hourglass, she observes rather than controls, suggesting a tension between presence and powerlessness within the cycles of life, death, and rebirth.

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In reflecting on mortality and its inevitability, I return to the center of the hourglass—the narrow point of transition between past and future. This space becomes a meditation on the present moment: the only place we truly inhabit.

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Borrowed Dust holds this awareness—an invitation to meet the present with care, and to live within it without fear.