Intuitive Readings
An empath is someone who feels the emotions of others.
What I do is, I empty myself of my own feelings, tune into the feelings of whomever I’m reading, and share what I’m feeling as if I were them.
I experience people in layers. First, what they’re feeling right now, at this exact moment. Then what they’re feeling underneath the surface. Then a layer below that. All the way down to a person’s core — their basic, essential makeup as a human being.
In the process, something strange happens. My body literally takes on these emotions. It happens through my muscles. They move my body into shapes that form a visual language. I interpret this language as best I can.
What I’m feeling, I have no choice about. What I say, however, is a conscious process, subject to my own subjectivity. I often get things wrong. If I say something that doesn’t resonate, I ask you to let it go.
This is a gift — I love giving it.
SXSW
The first time I did intuitive readings in front of an audience was at the ABXY Gallery on the Lower East Side. Probably 60 readings total, with 300 or so people cycling through the space, over the course of three days. Sometimes I nailed it; sometimes I fumbled; sometimes it was exquisite and sometimes it was exquisitely awkward. It's hard to go all the way with something, until the moment you're all the way with it. Then it's fun.
Feast your eyes on these double exposure masterpieces by Mark Abramson, taken during readings at the Assemblage in NYC.
And there was the night I did readings for a lovely group of Hasidic Jews on a rooftop in Brooklyn.
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