
Samaya
A Story of Time and All Her Daughters
Samaya
Author’s Note:
“I think about death quite often — not with morbid curiosity or dread, but with awe for its beauty and the connection it forges between us. Death itself does not excite me, nor does the mystery of what lies beyond. It is its mere existence that captivates me. It is in the finite world it defines that we have found the infinite. Infinite love, infinite happiness, infinite beauty are all made precious by these mortal boundaries we cannot escape.
Each of us is bound to death with a thin thread. This thread, attached to that nothingness, grows shorter with every passing moment. We know it happens, yet we choose not to see it or seek it. When we do, we see it in years or decades, and recoil in fear. But now, I urge you to share my perspective, see what I see: a breathtaking truth.
When the thread shortens, the air around it must expand. Like matter and energy, that space cannot be created or destroyed because that space is our essence. We find fulfillment and love and beauty and happiness in this space. We create hope and we achieve dreams. We birth fantasies, begin generations, form futures.
Yes, it is true that the thread will one day vanish. But, even then, we have become the space itself. We are the time, the connection, the imprint of life fully lived. Outside this thread, we are boundless and infinite. We made it so that everything, our very existence can live on beyond the thread. Death only reveals the infinite beauty we have created in its shadow. In death, we are nothing. And within that nothingness, we exist as everything we were.”
- by pranaya
Samudra
This project is for the water in our world. I’ve always loved water and the ocean. And, I love the sand just as much. Each grain is a piece of the world collected over lifetimes: mountain, shell, glacier, ash. It feels as though the earth broke down to make itself soft enough to rest on. The ocean reminds me of time; it is steady, ancient, and connected to the moon, the sky, the universe. Here, I feel more grounded and more free as I stand in the middle of everything… the past, the present, and future.