Faces From The Light - Trance-Channeled Art by Emily Cheeger

Emily Cheeger is an artist, film-maker, musician, trance channel and medium working in New York City.

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“Salvadoran Ancestors,” steam ITC, digital photography, Emily Cheeger, 2021

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"Copper" - pet spirit photograph of German Shepherd, smoke ITC, Emily Cheeger, 2023.

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“Tzo Li Smokes a Pipe,” steam ITC, Emily Cheeger, March 2022

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“Papa Zi and Papa Ji - Double Self-Portrait,” steam ITC, Emily Cheeger, March 2022

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“They Are Filming Me Back,” steam ITC (digital photography), Emily Cheeger, March 2022.

This is a watercolor-like portrait of Jay, a film director, looking through a viewfinder, spontaneously manifested by my spirit guides in steam coming from a pot of boiling pasta, during the course of a film shoot I was working on with him at the time. The colorization arose naturally from raising the saturation of the video still.

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“Baby Dragons,” steam ITC, Emily Cheeger, March 2022

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“Casualties of War,” steam ITC, March 2022, Emily Cheeger. Part of Nantucket series.

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“Got A Light?,” steam ITC, Emily Cheeger, 2021

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“The Jazz Musician,” digital ITC, Emily Cheeger, 2021

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“Papa Zi’s Valentine’s Card,” steam ITC, digital video, Emily Cheeger, February 2022.

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“The Dreaming Man,” by Emily Cheeger, steam ITC, digital photography, January 16th 2022

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“Father and Son,” by Emily Cheeger, steam ITC, digital photography, January 16th, 2022.

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Steam ITC, digital photography, January 16th, 2022. As with the digital ITC, closer examination reveals that the larger images are created from smaller ones. The eye is the symbol of my personal guide, Salvador.

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“Highwayman,” steam ITC, digital video, Emily Cheeger 2021

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“Japanese Scene,” steam ITC, Emily Cheeger 2021

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Excerpt from Session on December 14th, 2021, steam ITC, Emily Cheeger

This video is an excerpt from a longer steam ITC video session, in which I reached my hand in for a few seconds to smooth a wrinkle in the backdrop. In a sense, it is  “behind the scenes” footage that turned into documentation. You can see the spirits interacting with my hand, including Papa Zi, who appears in profile, wearing spectacles, as if inspecting what I am doing with the backdrop. The video was shot at 24FPS, but because steam moves so quickly, in order to see each image appear, it is necessary to slow it down.

In this excerpt, several frames show an African spirit appearing near my finger. The consistency of its appearance from frame to frame, and its expressiveness, is remarkable. 

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Untitled, steam ITC, digital photography, Emily Cheeger, 2021