The work explores how plants signify the nativity of a land and serve as tools for decolonization, investigating the materiality, temporality, and cultural connotations of flowers, using pressing and preserving as an intimate act of archiving resistance and memory. The act of pressing flowers is a way of engaging with the land, preserving fleeting moments, and resisting the erasure of native species. Flowers, distinct from plants, hold a symbolic weight—signifying beauty, fragility, resistance, and revolution. By pressing flowers, I study their afterlife, observing how they dry, decay, and transform. This fragile, intimate archive resists the taxonomical approach of a herbarium; it does not exist to classify or identify but to bear witness to a moment, a place, and a history. Through this I engage with the displacement of native species and how this reflects larger systems of colonization and ecological disruption. Even in displacement, a plant retains its essence, challenging the imposed narratives of erasure and control.

Observations and categorization -
The manner of maturation skips steps to direct decay, dehydration due to unexpected changes in environment. The size won’t change from now on but the colors will, it won’t grow but it will shrink, the composition will change.
Characteristics of changes will change.
It will remain 3 dimensional while drying but the distance gap from one stem to other is getting reduced from this axis, now they are on the same plane, now they fall more in the x and y dimensions, though z still exists but now it does not exists between 2 stems but in its depth of thickness of plant which will reduce with each day.
It is difficult to establish results as it keeps changing every day.-When it gets dries on the tree its different than how it gets dried in my keeping, I make a decision on how I want to dry it.-Few of them do not adjust on my pages they get shattered into small pieces.-Some retained most of their original color after drying too, few did not crumble.-Few turned extremely fragile on drying while few became sturdier.