The Borns sculpture series explores Rose’s interest in the egg as a form or shape, as well as an alchemical symbol. For each numerically titled piece, the artist has created a glass-blown form, which sits atop or seeps into a rock, itself shaped like an egg or eggshell shard. Made of rock and glass, they are made of one material that is in two different states and times. Blown hot glass sets and takes shape immediately; rocks form over thousands of years, though they are one material. Rose created these Borns when she was pregnant and was feeling directly in growing an alchemy of long and fast time. For the artist, the meeting of materials in the Borns presents an analogy with conception embodied in the egg as an embryonic vessel from which life grows. This series is another continuation of the egg as both form as well as referring to its symbolism in alchemy – the 17th-century science that has magical connotations. Rose’s choice of hybridising elemental substances from the earth links to her interest in how secret recipes were encoded in descriptions of scenery in alchemical literature, such as the 1616 Rosicrucian hero story, Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. For each piece, which is numerically titled like progeny, the artist creates a new glass-blown form for various stones, many of which are a combination of minerals known for their healing properties. The resulting Born is a meeting of materials, analogous with conception and birth biologically-speaking – a union embodied in the egg as an embryonic vessel from which life grows.