My series of self portraits was inspired by a floral dress
I acquired a decade ago. This dress is a representation for my love of flowers and gardens. Wearing this black and white floral dress, I photographed myself among familiar and intimate locale. As if the beauty and simplicity of wearing a flowery patterned dress and hanging in luscious gardens would influence my diasporic life, transforming its complexity into clarity.

Now several years has passed and the series has evolved. Once again wearing my comfort floral dress, visually I reflect on a self torn between cultures/lands, past/present, and a bewildered future. I chose the face as a metaphor for an invisible self, with the eyes and the mouth as the emblems of what can be uttered, silenced, or stay uncategorized. Posing for my own camera, I either partially or fully cover my face with a niqab, a mesh, a flower, or look away. For me these acts are reflective of a fragmented self, a self censored through geo-cultural movements.