When an urge to create takes over, your immediate surroundings somersault in marvellous forms to initiate you into your endeavour. This writer is a firm believer that there are no objects of inspiration, only perception that strikes the imagination. Quite a lengthy way to describe how a houseful of plants tended to by a grandmother turned into the theme for visual storyteller Anugraha Mahesh’s project puzzle, when an artistic impulse struck her. “My grandmother also has a liking for artificial flowers, and I never understood artificial plants when you have real plants. So I thought about it and built an idea from it,” she says.