Stripped Botanica is a black-and-white photographic series of flowers and plants in various states; fresh, opening, closing, withering, decayed. Removing colour strips away the noise that usually tells us how to feel about a flower’s condition: which stage is beautiful, which is past its best. What’s left is form, texture, and light. It’s a way of looking at a plant as it actually is, not as a symbol of freshness or decline.
There’s a element of fascination here with decay specifically — the way a dying or spent flower, once reduced to monochrome, can read as strange and sculptural rather than simply past its prime. Treating each image as a portrait rather than a still life is deliberate: these are studies of individual character across a life cycle, not a single idealized moment.
The series is intended to be quiet and meditative — a way of paying attention to what is in front of you.
