Aura Photos

What is an aura photo?

The most simple explanation is, that it is the energy you give off and outward to the world. Through a science based lens, it is the electromagnetic field that surrounds all living things and is not something that you can physically see. The photo is said to show something beyond what we can physically see but sometimes feel deeply within ourselves. 

The Aura camera - How it works.
The photo is an instant polaroid camera that prints out a double exposed polaroid. Takes the portrait first and then double exposes the colours over the top of the portrait. It works by placing your hands on the hand sensors. They then pick up on physiological data through acupressure points on the sensors and takes in subtle changes in your hands/the temperature and then feeds the information from both hands into the camera going through an algorithm to create the colour exposure.

This is just a machine/device. It is not meant to predict the future, look into the past or even to be used for medical/mental health reasons. It should just be seen as fun/a little self care ritual.
It can be insightful, helpful and give you a confidence boost, but it should not be used as a replacement or alternative to proper medical care and treatment.
None of this is concrete or fully defined - there are no absolutes. It isn’t something you can fully attach yourself to, in the same way you can’t hold onto your breath forever. It is capturing a fleeting moment.


How I read/What to expect with your reading.
The way in which I read things is very different to how others do so. The way I see it. The readings are just based on my own personal knowledge paired with pattern recognition. The camera is device that takes your portrait and essentially renders a painting we can’t predict. I will then read you like a painting based on the way the colours show up. Through my knowledge in art history and meaning behinds colours and symbols, as well as the impact and history of the LGBTQIA community has had on our culture/history as a whole. Through nuanced and more complex thinking and understanding of meanings and concepts. Art, much like the LGBTIQIA culture is coded, there is meaning behind things that not everyone understands, and this was a way to stay safe and to create a sense of personal freedom. A lot of artists held in high regard and were change-makers were part of the LGBTQIA community, even if it wasn’t explicitly said so (was illegal for a very long time). There is no this or that, right or wrong binary thinking in the way I read, because we are humans are a full spectrum of colour with light and dark aspects in those colour, neither being black or white. We are all our own unique rainbows, is how you will be read- full of colour. You become the art and I am just reading the story that is presented in front of us. Reading is just story telling.

Different colours mean different things to everyone. Everyone assigns their own meaning to colours and some hold certain colours in high regard. Colour resonates deeply and differently to everyone, and not everyone can see colour in the same way you see it. Some people feel colours, others don’t see colour at all. It is all subjective and unique to you. None of this is concrete, certain or a divine and perfect truth, it is relative. I don’t know you and I can’t tell fully who you are, what your past or future holds. I am not an authority over you, we are just meeting face to face human to human. You are a sovereign being and have your own personal discernment which is a powerful tool. I am reading the moment captured on film. Sometimes it helps us understand ourselves better, sometimes it reveals something to us we haven’t been able to put into words, sometimes it doesn’t make sense (and that is ok) but overall is just a fun and cool activity. It doesn’t have to be taken so seriously or literally if you don’t want to. Regardless though it is kind of beautiful in this modern day world to sit for a portrait and let yourself be really seen in the physical sense. The process is a practice that we very rarely partake in, and the act of taking time out of your day to do something nice for yourself is a special experience. This is only magic in all of this is you and if you make it so. You are the one who gets to feel the experience fully, only you can do that. I can’t for you. You are the magical part of this all. I am just telling you what I see and if it resonates within you that is you recognising something within yourself, or hearing something you need in that moment. Only you can do that, and that is the special part of this all - YOU!