Erika Tsimbrovsky on the project:

Rustling Silk was inspired by my childhood landscape: the steppe horizon, infinite line, and the immense flat territory experienced by nomads.  When I was a child I loved to go to a steppe near my house to sit and observe the monotonous, monochrome landscape with never-changing blue sky and snow mountains far away. I dreamed about my future. 

The project—an exploration of the ancient nomadic culture of inner Asia and of our deep roots in rootlessness—is socially relevant in that contemporary society has begun to redefine the meaning of “home” through technology, particularly the internet. Personally, I cannot really say that I have roots in a specific country, and for a long time I have felt ungrounded and without a true home. With technology, I have begun to feel that my sense of rootlessness is not only natural but a common phenomenon. Society's sense of roots, home, and the community has changed and we see a resurgence of the feeling of freedom, as if we were the ancient nomadic horsemen in our contemporary society.