AYLA HIBRI, ‘A Palm Tree Bows To The Moon’
A PALM TREE BOWS TO THE MOON
Size: 19.5 x 26.5 cm
Pages: 146
Published by Kaph Books, 2018
A Palm Tree Bows to The Moon accompanies an invented persona going through different life stages. Hibri witnesses its confrontations with the ego, shadow, and mortality as it journeys in search of inner wholeness. In parallel, the book juxtaposes photographs stripped down to archetypes, events, and motifs that organize, direct, and inform the spirit in its transformation. As such, Hibri shows us that by tuning in to the universe's interventions, patterns, and synchronicities, and perceiving them as carriers of symbolic markers, we can be alerted to the mysterious that hides in plain sight and create order from the chaos we exist in. These phenomena have meanings that can stretch from the mundane to the cosmic, by the imagination of the beholder. Proposed is a way of looking that unveils the interconnectedness of what is visible and invisible, of the conscious and unconscious concerning the self and the environment it dwells in.