Every palm tree is a person. And every person was shaped by where they had to grow.
Kimberly Genevieve is a photographer, filmmaker, and palm tree enthusiast. She has spent a decade capturing palm trees and the personalities she sees in every single one. A Palm Shop is her obsession made into art.
When I look at palm trees, they all feel so different to me. Like each one has its own personality, and its own way of standing in the world. Some grow close to walls, almost hiding behind them because they learned it's safer not to be fully seen (The One With Trust Issues). Some grow with the same roots as those right next to them, but end up somewhere completely different (The Cycle Breaker). Some are surrounded by all this beauty and perfect light, and still feel a little lonely somehow (The Total Sweetheart). And others just keep growing, way past whatever tried to contain them in the first place (The Recovering Good Girl). I can see parts of myself in all of them. I think that's why I love them so much. And the closer you look, the more you'll start to recognize yourself looking right back.
"I spent a long time trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Turns out, there was never anything wrong with me. I was just shaped by everything I'd been through. I think all of us are."— Kimberly Genevieve
Whoever you are right now, messy, complicated, still figuring it out, that's the version that belongs on your wall.
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