The secrets of the stem

I have loved photographing flowers all my life and when I read ‘The Complete Language Of Flowers’ by S. Theresa Dietz I was about to see flowers in a whole new perspective and use them as a means of communication, this book is an alphabetised dictionary about flowers and what their meanings are, each flower has its own meaning for emotion. I wanted to use the Victorian language of flowers to communicate how I feel about myself in a self-portrait covered in flowers in specific areas of my body to communicate how I feel about certain areas of my body.