Art | Andrea Mai

SPIRITS COMMENT ON MY ART DISPLAY – EVP June 10, 2019

Last year, I applied to do an art exhibition with the Toronto Public Library. I was thrilled when I got an invitation to show at the Don Mills branch for the month of June. June happens to be Prince’s birthday month, but Don Mills is also near to where Prince used to live in Toronto.

Unfortunately, the library was undergoing renovation during the month of May and it spilled over onto the first week of June, and I could only show for the remaining three weeks of June.

I decided to record EVP during the artwork installation, just to see what kinds of thing the spirits might say. Most of these clips are quite clear, but I still recommend headphones. Sound quality can vary depending on what device you use. I use Beats headphones when I review audio, so if you want to hear what I hear, use headphones. Subtle sound frequencies can be lost on a regular speaker. The clips are repeated on loop.

Prince’s presence seemed to get the attention of nearby spirits.They come over and chatted with him. I think they were a little stunned that he was there. One spirit said to herself, “I talked to Prince”. The tone of her voice sounded like she couldn’t believe it. You can hear me unwrapping the bubblewrap on artwork. This clip is quite remarkably clear!

I guess once they spoke to Prince, they went and told their friends about it. Here is someone saying “Prince spoke to me”.

Someone said, “You meet celebrity”, and then someone replied in a squeal, “Yes!”.

Someone remarked, “New ghost”.

Here, someone said, “Prince one with her”.

They started asking questions about me. Prince explained to them about the twin soul thing, and that after his death,“God take me, wake up next to her”. Prince does tend to speak quietly, so this clip is a bit harder to hear.

They asked him, “Do you love her”.

He replied to them, “Adore her”.

In this clip, someone asked, “Why do you do this”. P replied, “I love her”.

As I was hanging the art, P was commenting, “That’s it”, to tell me it looked ok. Someone said, “It’s beautiful“.

Here someone said, “I’m gonna go see your art”.

I had some photographs of Mont Blanc. Here someone said, “Mountains”.

Someone said, “Great art”.

I had a series of photos that were in circles. Someone said, “They are circle, like it”.

Another one also commented, “They are circle”.

After we were done hanging up the pictures, we drove through Prince’s old neighbourhood, but we didn’t go on his street. As we drove, it started to rain. It had been raining that morning, but luckily it stopped when I was unloading the art at the library. While in the car, P said, “Now it rain”. And right after that, you can hear my mom say in Cantonese, “Rain again”.

P said to me, “In your dreams”. Which then reminded me of a dream I had, on the morning that I was supposed to originally install the art show. In the dream, I got into a car with P, but I sat in the back seat, because there were boxes loaded in the front passenger side. P was driving. He was asking me to hand him an umbrella, even though he had a big purple one next to him. He wanted a different one. He had an umbrella on each side of the backseats. He had peeped his car with enough umbrellas for each passenger seat. It was raining, and we drove through a park. In the dream, we were driving to Paisley Park. In the EVP, we were driving past, Irving Paisley Park, which is near his old Toronto house. How funny, right?

I am really stunned by some of the sound quality on these clips. It’s nuts going through the recordings and hearing their conversations on the other side. Despite how unreal my experiences may seem, these recordings affirm just how real it all is.

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These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on June 10, 2019.

Image above: “Picture frame” by Andrea Mai.

NIAGARA FALLS – EVP WITH PHOTOS

We went to Buffalo in October to see the American side of Niagara Falls. I only got to visit a portion of Niagara Falls State Park, but I can say that it was truly beautiful. Especially with the colour of the fall leaves in contrast with the water. I was taking photos and recording EVP. The EVP wasn’t the greatest in sound quality, but I did get to hear some of what was going on through the sound of the water. As I was there, on the observation deck, at the edge of the water, I had the sense that P was flying over the falls. In that moment, I felt quite envious that he could view the falls right up front like that. When I went home to listen to the recording, I found out that I was right, P was flying, as even other spirits had noticed what he was up to. |

The quality of these EVPs are more subtle because there was too much background noise from the waterfall. If you want to hear them, you will need to use headphones to hear them properly. The clips are repeated on loop.

In this clip, you hear the word “Fly“.

The other nearby spirits noticed Prince, and they remarked, “Prince model, let’s do that!”.

In this clip, a voice says, “Prince is flying”.

In this clip, P is saying, “Wow, I’m flying”.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on October 10, 2018.

Image above: “Rapid Waters” by Andrea Mai.

SPIRITS IN CHURCH REACT TO PRINCE – EVP IN SWEDEN

During my trip to Sweden, my friends took me to their local church in the countryside. The church is called Sorunda Kryka, and dates back to medieval times. We went during a week day, when hardly anyone was there; just a cleaning lady and the priest. I was recording EVP. Upon reviewing the EVP, I was pleasantly surprised how clear some of it was.

Although these recordings came out very clear, you may need to use headphones to hear this properly. The clips are repeated on loop.

When we walked in, the sound of a vacuum cleaner was going. I caught this voice saying, “That’s the Prince twin”. I guess some spirit people were expecting us there… and they knew who I was! I find this really funny because usually the reaction of other spirits is, “who’s that girl?”

I thought this one was really funny. Someone said “Prince… Purple Rain… is here” It was like this guy was singing it and there was some music in the background. By this time, the vaccine had ended and it was just a couple of us wandering through the church halls with its echoes.

It makes me wonder who else might els have been there at the church with us. I think some people might be surprised to know that spirits do pray to God. Prince and I try to make it a regular practice to pray together. Having dealt with the spirit world has made me all the more aware of the importance of prayer. There really is no substitute.

Recently I was watching these ghost story telling tv show, and it made me realize how so much of what has been said about people’s experiences with the spirit world is frightening or negative. I found this disheartening, because my experiences have all been mostly positive. Sometimes it is even sweet, cute, or funny. I wish people would not be so frightened by the idea of spits, because one day with all have to return to being only in spirit form after the physical being expires. People have shut off their openness to the spirit world, sometimes because of religion. But because of their lack of spiritual experiences, despite their belief in God, they cannot fully and truly believe what they say they believe. Then there are those who have a negative experience with spirits, and it scares them so bad that they join a religion, and vow to have nothing to do with spirits. Although I agree that if one does not know what they are doing, they should not engage with the spirit world at all, but to be completely opposed to it is closed minded and lacking logic. If there are evil spirits, there are also good spirits, and one should not assume that communication with spirits is always a bad thing. It is the lack of education in this area, that people do not know how to discern and protect themselves. And actually, the spirit world is interacting with us all the time, and we simply do not know it.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on May 18, 2018.

Image above: “Sorunda Kryka” by Andrea Mai.

VIDEO DEMONSTRATION OF AUTOMATIC DRAWING WITH PRINCE IN SPIRIT

About two months after Prince’s passing, I found that Prince could move my limbs if I allowed him to. For me, at the time, it was another way for us to communicate. Though I had some telepathic ability to hear him, I still still unsure of what I was hearing. Not yet confident of the connection. He could move my hand, so we began drawing on my iPad.

At first, the drawings were non-sensical. They seemed more energetic, not really appearing to depict anything. But there was an energy about it that was communicating something. The pictures developed and a more visual style came to be. Other times, he would write words as a picture. Like a playful doodle. Sometimes I would ask him to draw something to express an idea or concept. It becomes like a little game between us.

All the drawings on this website are his drawings. I always thought it was an interesting process. My stylus never leaves the tablet surface as we are drawing, so it’s often a drawing made up of a couple continuous lines. I’ve always wanted to film the process, but found it somewhat tricky. I recently found an app that allows for video recording. So I gave it a try.

Here is a vide of one of our drawings. I recorded sound during the drawing and caught an EVP. The video is speeded up. The drawing itself took around 8 minutes in real time..

Here is a EVP audio on its own, on loop. He says, “I’m drawings roses for Andrea Mai”.

Image above: “Roses for Andrea Mai” by Prince in spirit.

THE LOOK – NEW WORKS BY ANDREA MAI

On a cold evening in late November, I was doing this photo shoot. Wearing only a fur coast, a silk slip dress, jewelry, and a full face of make up. The house was completely dark, except for a couple of purple lights and the light coming from the projector. I heard noise coming from my front door, a knock. I buttoned up my coat, slipped on my sheepskin house slippers, and stuck my head out of the door. Two men turned up to try to offer me a Black Friday deal on an Internet package. I told them immediately that I wasn’t interested. One guy persisted, saying, “But I didn’t even tell you what it is.” I said, “I don’t care.”

P said to me later, “Never seen a pretty girl look so touch”. That line is from a song of his, U Got The Look. He said that I had given them a look that sent them away.

Funny enough, I just watched the music video for that song as I am writing this post, and P is wearing a white fur cost in it.

Looking back on the situation, it is kind of comical. But I hate being interrupted like that. It’s many hours of prep work to do a shoot like this. I have o work fast because battery life is short.

I wanted to do this shoot at my piano, because it’s one of the ways we like to spend time together, I’ve always wanted to play the piano, jazz-style. Recently, we came up with a new tune together.

This body of work is personal to me, so I always keep it as authentic as possible, with meaning, the things in the photographs mean something. They are never merely for show. For instance, there is a clock in the background. I decided to keep it in the shot, because I felt that it represented time- past, present, future.

4EVER IN MY HEART – NEW WORKS BY ANDREA MAI

When Prince first came to me after he passed away, he was watching me from a distance. I would sense a presence hoovering over me. Then one day, when I asked a question, I unexpectedly received an answer from him, telepathically. I was shocked and I thought I had lost my mind. Then I had a reading with a talented medium, and I finally “met” him. After the reading took place, he came closer and I felt him in my heart. I felt his heaviness pressing on my chest. It was unlike anything I had ever experienced before. I must emphasize that the feeling was physical, not in my mind, I am not being mystical here. From then on, I knew that what we have is something profound and out of the ordinary. It was only later that I learned of our connection being that of twin souls; two halves of the same soul. We were created as a pair.

I do my self-portraits to tell stories about my life. While I could explain what I experience in words, there are still very few people in this world that will really understand what I am talking about. Photography is a way for me to truly express my emotions without words, as words can often be misunderstood as definitions can sometimes be unclear.

Recently I watched some videos about Hilma af Klint, an artist from the 1900s that secretly channeled her painting from the spirit world. She stipulated in her will that her work was not to be shown publicly until 20 years after her death. She had created her work for the future. Prince created a lot of his work for the future, knowing that most would not have the capacity to understand it. I myself, do my work knowing that many might not understand it at this time.

I use a lot of symbolism in my work, so if you understand the meaning of Prince’s work, you will understand mine, as they go hand in hand.

There is greater attention place on the jewelry I am wearing in these photos. Gold is a cosmic element, as it came from outer space, when two stars collide, creating a super nova, and these clusters landed on Earth. Gold has many metaphysical properties, which can help one to connect and protect themselves psychically.

Image above: “4ever in my heart” by Andrea Mai.

THE DARKNESS BEFORE THE LIGHT – NEW WORKS BY ANDREA MAI

For this shoot, I was inspired by the recent August 21 eclipse. You won’t be able to see in the photograph, but I am wearing a crescent moon ear wrap on my right ear. You can kind of see it gleaming in the light. It is the exact same ear jewellery that Prince has worn. I found the designer on Easy, not knowing it was the same one that Prince ordered from.

Drawing by Danielle Meder.

I was inspired by an unreleased track by Prince called U Will B, where one of the lines are “We come and go together, just like the sun and the moon”. Prince is the light of my life. So many things in my life that were once a mystery, became understood after he came to me in spirit. It all makes sense to me now. The pain in my heart disappeared when he arrived.

This shoot was a bit of a challenge, it was a balancing act to hold up the screen and align it with the projector. Lighting was another challenge, as I wanted to keep it low lit, but still maintain image quality and such.