This painting depicts a flower with a dark backdrop…but this seems to be different as it is more like a stone ….yes it is a symbolic work which is expressing that the beauty of a flower like young girl, both outside and within ….with a passage of time, in our family, social and cultural set ups, tends to stiffen and harden and the tender, happy from within flower, if doesn’t droop, turns stone……This painting makes us question ourselves and the world around us… As with beauty it also instils fear into the heart…fear of losing the true gift of nature to humanity….a true woman….