Of the Muted Flowers is a visual, emotional, and sensory compilation of images and text, which reflects on identity, cultural memory, and the artist’s fragmentary connection to an imaginary homeland.
While this work is personal, it invites the viewer to engage with symbols and ideas related to themes of cultural isolation and alienation that can be felt collectively by diasporic communities across the world.
In the confusion and chaos of words lost in translation, the silence of flowers is symbolic – it can provide solace when all the other ways of communication are closed. One can find comfort by recognising and contemplating species of flowers from faraway lands.