The artwork of Ingrid Uys meditates on the inevitability of change through the notion of impermanence. Uy’s work considers the relation between time and motherhood. In this sense, the work carries universal undertones of mothering as a way of being shifted from the centre, constantly contemplative. To be a mother, is to be tasked with the gentle and close witnessing of transition. Ingrid Uys draws from the beauty and harmony of the natural world through the motif of the hummingbird, to offer a visual interpretation on the fleeting nature of a moment that speaks to the fragility of time. To Uys, hummingbirds, when in flight, briefly create an illusion often hoped for - the stillness of temporality and at times the evasion of nostalgia. The work of Ingrid Uys holds at once the old adage that ‘time flies’.