Art Life | Andrea Mai

LIFE & ART UPDATES – FALL 2022

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The weather is getting colder, and it’s time to get the garden ready for winter. A friend gave us this lemongrass plant that I’m going to keep indoors. I filmed it and a spirt voice said “Lemon grass”. It is so loud and clear!

I haven’t had time for much EVP lately. But I hope to get back to it again soon.

Art that I’m working on
Now that I am spending more time indoors, I am working on my art. There is a lot that I want to do. But time is so fleeting. I even have things I want to put in my Etsy shop, but they are on the back burner at the moment. I have to manage my time better. I feel like I am saying that all the time. But it just feels like time slips away.

Below is an artist proof of a piece I did recently.

I recently got back into doing my sun dye printing. I printed some T-shirts. I love finding new ways to do photography.

A tribute to my friend
During the summer, a dear friend of mine passed away suddenly. She had developed breast cancer. I met her in 2018, and sadly, the timezone difference made it hard to talk on the phone. I knew she had many burdens. She was a mother of a young child. The photo below is one of my most favourite portraits that I’ve ever done.

While she was at a retreat, in hopes that she could heal from cancer, she sent me photos of her surroundings. There was one pic of a sticker on a door that said, “You are beautiful”. I thought that was something that people should see more often. Positive affirmations are a powerful thing in the mind. I decided to create a sticker that I could stick to packages I send out. I think people need to see more positive messages.

That’s all for now. I hope you are having a lovely autumn. Wishing you Happy Thanksgiving, if you are in Canada this weekend.

SPIRIT VOICES IDENTIFIED A PLANT FOR ME – EVP ON VIDEO

It’s been a busy summer, and as the weather gets colder, the gardening season here comes to a close. I was in my backyard when I found a shrub of weeds. I pulled it out, breaking it off at its roots. I noticed some berries on the shrub. I wondered what it was and worried that I could have pulled out something worth keeping. I have been working on getting to know and identify wild edibles. I think it is something that would be useful to know.

I was going to use a phone app to identify the plant, but the server was down. So I just took some photos and video to document the plant. Later that day, I tried the app again and it had identified it as Common Nightshade. I double checked by looking at photos and videos about this plant.

The next day, I took a look at the videos and I made of the berries and I found voices trying to tell me what it was. It sounded like they were trying to speak slowly to be very clear, as if speaking to a person hard of hearing. The voice said, “Nighhhh-t Shayyyy-de”.

You can see in the video, the green and purple-ish black berries, the nightshade flowers, and a strand of barnyard millet. The voice says “Night… shade” quite clearly. The audio volume has been enhanced and filtered to make it more audible. You don’t even need headphones to hear it.

I am quite stunned by this, that these voices knew what the plant was. As I had never heard of this plant at all. They could never had read my mind to say what it was, so they were saying something that I did not already know. There was another video, which I believe it was P saying it first, but then he had other people saying it too. I think they are trying out different tones of voices to see what works best for recording. I’ve noticed that higher pitched voices are easier to spot.

I have more recording to share, but things at this time are too busy. Occasionally, I do post shorts on my YouTube channel videos clips that I haven’t talked about yet on my blog, so subscribe there to get the most recent uploads. I will post more later.

This video was recorded using my iPhone 11, August 31, 2022.

VOICES IN MY GARDEN – EVP CAUGHT ON VIDEO USING iPHONE

Since getting the iPhone 11, I have been experimenting with EVP captured on video. This makes things interesting, as it becomes a record of what my surroundings were at the time of recording. This proves that what is being said at the time is related to the situation. I have been posting these clips on my YouTube channel, so if you want to follow there, you will be notified of new clips sooner than on this blog. The audio in these clips are amplified for volume, and filtered for greater clarity.

At the beginning of the clip, it says, “Hello, bee”.

A female voices says, “Butterfly”. Then P says, “In a hurry”, and then the female voice repeasts him.

The sky had the weird cloud patterns forming, and they said, “Geo…engineered”. As P’s fans will know, he spoke of chemtrails in an interview once.

I recorded this hen pecking away at her food, and on the recording, a female voice says, “Awwwwww”. I could not hear it in the original audio, only after I filtered it. The voice sounds so close to the mic.

A voice says, “Hotttt”, then says, “Gawd, it’s humid!”. It was really hot that day, 93 degrees Fahrenheit. This would imply that spirits can feel the temperature here, which suggests that the senses can be experienced beyond the physical body.

P says, “Strawberry”. These are new in my garden this year. They are the Berries Galore variety.

That’s all for now. I will be posting clips on YouTUbe and recapping them here on the blog.

P SAYS “I LOVE YOU” ON EVP – July 1, 2022

I hope your summer is going well. Mine has been really busy, filled with days spent in the garden. I have not had time to really do EVP, but I recently got an iPhone 11 for making videos. I’ve noticed that EVPs can come through pretty good on it. I also have a SmartLav mic from Rode that I think would work well for EVP, because it’s frequency range can pick up 20 hz. But I haven’t had time to review EVP using the mic yet.

I noticed this gorgeous pink and purple sunset one evening, so I ran out to take photos. I also did this quick video of the sky. When I was making videos, I could sense P telling me he loves me. When I reviewed my video, I heard him saying it.

Here is the video, it’s at the end of clip that he says, “I love you”. It’s very quick. I can hear someone else saying something before it, but I can’t make out what was said.

Here is an edited version of the audio, where the volume was turned up and filtered.

That’s all from me or now, wishing you a beautifu summer!

These recordings were recorded using my iPhone 11, on July 1, 2022.

MY “FEED THE BEES” PROJECT – EVP May 28, 2022

Recently, I decided that I wanted to plant some wild flowers in my garden. I found some variety seed packs online, designed for attracting butterflies and bees. I wanted these so that I would feel less guilty about harvesting all my flowers and leaving less food for the bees. I decided to make this a little project of mine to feed the bees, as I live in suburbia, which is filled mostly of plain grass lawns which offers no sustenance for bees and other beneficial pollinators. I needed to get them soon, as it was already late spring. So i headed over to the local garden centre.

I had been there before, recording EVP, and I thought it had very interesting activity on the recordings. So I recorded here again. Here’s what I found on the recording.

Some one said, “Prince with Andrea”.

As I was looking at the rack of seeds. I could not find the bee blend. They had the butterfly one though. P said to someone, “Try to attract bees“.

I found another wild flower seed pack called Upland Blend, it did not specify that it attracts bees, but someone responded, “Bees like these flower”. I found out on the website later, that this blend supports bees.

As I was there, P’s presence in spirit did not go unnoticed by those around him. Someone said, “Girl know Prince”. Another person said, “Sit on a tree”.

Someone observed, “They’re tied together”. I believe they are referring to the fact that P and I have a cord that connects us (as twin souls). This was mentioned to me when I had a reading with a medium. Presumably, this cord is visible to others in the spirit world.

Someone asked, “Was that Prince?”.

The garden centre that I was at, has a greenhouse. I found it interesting that someone asked, “What are you making?”. And then someone responded, “We are making windows”.

When I went to the cashier to pay for the seeds, they rang up the total, and it was a lot more than I expected. I was going to pay it, but I remembered seeing it cheaper on the website. I inquired about the price and explained it was cheaper on their website. Someone said, “So expensive”. P piped in and said, “Error”.

P had his dog with him, someone said, “Prince” and someone exclaimed, “Puppy!”.

I recently found this daisy in my garden. We’ve never had daisies before, it was tucked in amongst the chamomile.

I cut it and put it in water, using an old glass Coke bottle as a vase.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on May 28, 2002

IT’S BLOOM TIME – Art and Life Update

Not only is May, my birthday month, but it’s my favourite time of year for its seasonal blooms. It is as if everything springs back to life from the winter hibernation. The warm weather brings seemingly immediate growth to plants that laid quietly dormant from the winter months.

Though this time is exciting, I am currently feeling overwhelmed with so much that needs to be done in the garden, and life in general. It becomes an urgent priority to get seeds sown in, and shop for plants before the planting season ends. Canada’s growing season is limited, so one must make the most of the time when it comes.

These last few weeks have been occupied with going to plant nurseries and garden centres to find the best selection of plants for my garden. In addition, there is always something that needs attention in the garden, whether it is weeding, pruning, watering, planting, and of course harvesting. I also do research to make the most of what I am growing. This year, I have added sage, catnip, lavender, green perilla, and violas to my herb garden. I have also added in a mix of edible and wild flowers from some surprise variety seed packs. It will be interesting to see what comes from it.

I tried eating viola for the first time. Its fragrance is divine. I put one in a glass of water and I could smell it every time I took a sip. Then I ate the flower, and it was crisp. Its flavour was floral, grassy, and slightly peppery.

Last week, I was weeding our garden vegetable beds, and discovered a single violet plant, tucked away in a corner. I felt it was a blessing, as for several months now, I have been wishing for violet. I have never seen them in person, as they don’t seem common in my area. I even bought seeds to try to germinate them, though I heard they can be difficult, they will have to wait for autumn sowing. Perhaps it was P who brought me this, carrying its seed in the wind, hoping to create this “ocean of violets in bloom” that I dream of. I had been researching its medicinal properties and uses, and wanted to add it to my stock of herbal supplies.

I have taken care to transplant the violet in a better spot to propagate. I plan to collect its seeds and sow them in a designated area.

I have a lot of things I need to do for my art projects and my shop, but I have to take the time out to work on my garden, which is the source of my shop inventory. I will be adding dried violas to my shop when I have gathered a lot. So a lot of things have to go on the back burner for now. Because as we all know, the blossoms don’t last forever. You just have to enjoy them while they’re there.

I never thought I’d wear Crocs, but here we are, they make them in Lavender color, the only color I’d wear them in. Perfect for gardening, an anti-fashion fashion statement.

My garden has become my sanctuary and source of inspiration. It is a place where I unplug from the world, and focus on nature, and my inner thoughts.

Monet is one of my favourite painters, he created his works in his garden, the source of the subject matter for most of his famous works. I hope to have something like that in the future for myself.

Wishing you all, a beautiful summer!

REFLECTION ON SIX YEAR ANNIVERSARY, PRINCE CELEBRATION 2022

Ever since 2016, after Prince’s passing, I’ve noticed snow in April. This year was no exception. It snowed here on Easier Monday. I heard that this year was supposed to be an early spring according to the groundhog, but it doesn’t feel like it to me…

I’ve continued to record EVP, though I’ve been busy with my work. I get the sense that he is content, where he is. I think that people’s feelings on the other side is very transparent. And sometimes I hear them say things like “You are happy”, or “Prince happy”. Where he is at, it is a joyful existence, filled with friends, foodie treats, and lots of fun.

I’ve been avoiding Facebook in the past year, it has been where the place where I get most Prince related news. So I don’t always know what is going on, as I just don’t pay attention to FB anymore, But recently, I could remember one time thinking to myself, wishing that there was some kind of video recording of Prince when he was a kid. I wondered if there was any chance that such a thing existed. I wanted to hear his kid voice. And then one day, I went onto my FB feed and scrolled. A news article about a news station finding a recording of P from when he was about eleven years old. I felt like my wish had come true. But when I looked at the date of the news release, it made me realize that perhaps when I was having those wishful thoughts, it was actually him telling me about this thing, and I just misunderstood thinking it was my thoughts. Telepathy is funny like that. A similar thing happened when the Prince Estate released a collection of face masks for covid. I literally saw the designs in my head, and they were released in an announcement shortly after, exactly what I saw! What a trippy feeling!

I can’t wait until it is finally warm enough to start working in the garden again. I’ve been planning out the garden in my mind and looking for seeds. I’m thinking about a bed of sweet violets, how the smell would be glorious in bloom.

Now that’s it’s been six years since his passing. It feels like a long time ago, because the world is such a different place now. What I wouldn’t give to be in a more innocent world… There are going to be more difficult times ahead for many people. My hope is that people make things right in their lives before it’s too late.

Prince lived his life fully. He accomplished many things with the time that he had. And I know, he left this world knowing that there was more he would have liked to do. But for the most part, he had pursued all his interests to a level of personal satisfaction. Not many people can say that. His dear friend, Lenny Kravitz said that about himself in an interview mentioning Prince. For myself, I am doing that. I am revisiting interests, making right of things that I did wrong, salvaging projects that I didn’t finish, pursuing interests with a renewed perspective and confidence. Accomplishing and doing things that my younger self would not have dared to try. I am happy doing these things, and I know I will one day leave this world feeling fulfilled and grateful for all I had gotten to experience.

I hope you are all doing well, staying sae out there in this world.

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