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Inspired by:
The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari-Banu
Designed by:
Naas Mohammed
Resin bra by:
Jessee Hernandez-MXZ.thebrand
The Story
Prince Ahmed, the youngest son of the Sultan of India, follows a magical arrow deep into the desert rocks, leading him to a subterranean enchanted palace. There, he meets Pari-Banu, a powerful and breathtakingly beautiful fairy princess who becomes his wife. Pari-Banu introduces the prince to a realm of celestial magic, where the boundaries between the mortal world and the spirit world dissolve.
The core of her domain is a place of ethereal, blinding beauty, heavily associated with the transition of light and the golden hour. The sunset represents the closing of the mortal day and the opening of the magical twilight realm – a breathtaking boundary where the fiery brilliance of the sun meets the cool, deep magic of the fairy kingdom.
The sun and moon are lovers who meet only at sunset, when the sky blushes in orange and gold and for a fleeting moment, both are seen together. Like Aziz and Aziza beneath the enchanted skies of Arabian nights, their love is beautiful precisely because it is rare, suspended between day and night. Then the moon carries the memory of the sun into darkness, until they meet again at the edge of tomorrow.
Naas Mohammed