Flaw • ruh

Pronunciation for Flora, this series will always hold a special place in my life, because this is the first series I completed after a gap of almost two years of bed rest.

My autoimmune disease which mainly affected the appearance of my skin took a toll on my self confidence.

Nature has always been my inspiration and when I started shooting these images, I was choosing flowers and leaves in and around my area, that are not necessarily common or beautiful to look at. Soon I realised a pattern that I was following. I was being attracted to dried flower buds and leaves that are going to wither. I was choosing from the plants that grew by the roadsides and in the marshes, as it is a rainy season here in Maharashtra right now. The outline over the images are just an incorporation of my style which is still evolving.

I was trying to express that being flawed is okay and it is beautiful too. Coincidently, when I was naming my series I had chosen "flora" initially and when I was looking for the correct meaning of the word, I came across its pronunciation which was 'Flaw﹒ruh' and I knew it all came together.

All the images are shot on iPhone 6 and illustrations are made digitally on Sketched