The exhibition Lucid Realms is inspired by ancient Egyptian philosophy that has been gathered in a text known as The Book of Thoth or The Emerald Tablets. They represent ancient Egyptian texts presumed to have been written by Thoth, the Egyptian god of writing and knowledge, known later in Greek mythology as Hermes Trismegistus. The exhibition explores known beliefs and ancient wisdom by relating it to the present.

The exhibition includes paintings and installations reflecting this idea. By creating form that is inspired by either present-day reality or ancient mythology, it aims to explore the artist’s questions about the very depths of the universe and the self. As one is part of the other and consisting of the whole such as the sky, the planets, the stars and other beings, the philosophy garnered from The Book of Thoth reflects time and space, creation and destruction, the individual and the cosmos– all contradictions and movements embedded both in our realities and our dreams.

Through tones, colors and line movements that could be a universal landscape, the work creates a unique and deep experience of space and time prompting reflection upon our external and internal landscape of being through a reading of ancient mythologies. Combining thoughts and sensations evoked upon observation and relfection of the world, Wahby envisions different dimensions and perspectives to contemplate the space and time in which we exist. From a starting point of both reality and mythology, the work created aims to reconstruct and connect her external and internal world to recreate and recollect, to commune with the self and others. In a visual context, the works exhibited contain within themselves the human experience of existence within time and space.