The thesis explores visual metaphors with floriography in creating a portraiture depicting self-identity. The work is a full standing figure of a woman made out of paper painted with floras, wallflower, makahiya, prayer plant, Afrcan violet, and corydalis hemidecentra that symbolize and possess some attributes parallel to introversion. The process of papier-mache in taka-making, employed as a method in building the figure, reflects upon introversion, as the craft involves building layers of paper-like a shell that may be used by introverts to hide in order to protect themselves; its hollowness a representation on how they are sometimes perceived by others. These concepts were constructed with the theories articulated by Sussure’s model of Semiotics, the papier-mache process of making and floriagraphy as “signifier” and “introversion” as signified.