"Nothing to Lose but the Sky" is a project complied by Ekaterina Costa in 2023, photographed in the artist's family apartment January and February 2022 in Moscow, Russia.

At the eve of the New Year 2022 the Russian-American artist returned to her native Moscow after years living abroad in Paris, France to care for her mother during the last months of her life. Ravaged by cancer, her mother was bedridden with compromised immunity in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ekaterina and her grandmother provided palliative care and stayed by her mother's side almost without leaving the apartment. Venturing into the unknown, to confrontation with human mortality, the artist reflected on the life her mother led, contained entirely within the walls of the apartment. During those months of isolation, the artist's only contact with the outside world was through the apartment's large windows. She spent her time meticulously documenting the cracks of light into the world beyond the glass, and recording this domestic space that had become so familiar, oppressive and heavy. Delving into the secrets revealed in every seemingly familiar detail of the family home, that before seemed so familiar, so mundane.

Following the death of her mother on February 16th, 2022 and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia six days later, Ekaterina had to leave Russia on February 25th, not knowing when she would be able to return. The nine Kodak Tri-X films she brought back to Paris became her only testimony, her record of this period.

The suggested print technique for this series is Piezography Pro Charcoal prints on awagami unryu paper, of near transparent 33g thickness, floating weightlessly against the light to emulate the effect of window panes. Like floating curtains, the photographs compose a theatre emptied of its inhabitants, confronted with the passage of time, like palimpsests of memory.