This series explores the body as something society has learned to read as a mistake.

Here, the orchid is no longer a symbol of tenderness, but of selection — a form of beauty permitted to exist only once it has been controlled and curated. The body undergoes the same process: it is evaluated, corrected, disciplined by the gaze.

The skin in these photographs does not hide and does not ask for acceptance. It exists as a surface of memory, vulnerability, and resistance at once.

I am interested in the moment when the natural begins to be perceived as unacceptable. When the gaze of others turns bodily difference into social alienation. When a person is taught to feel shame for something inseparable from themselves.

These images are not about illness.
They are about the right to remain visible without the necessity of conformity.