Empathy: The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.
The imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it.
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Donna Festa, Arms Crossed, oil on wood, 5.5 x 5.5 in.
Donna Festa, Man, oil on wood, 5 x 5.5 in.
Donna Festa, Man with Yellow Shirt, oil on wood, 5.5 x 5.5 in.
Donna Festa, Hair, oil on wood, 5.5 x 5.5 in.
Donna Festa, Peaches, oil on wood, 5.5 x 5.5 in.
Image at top: Donna Festa, Years, oil on wood, 5.5 x 5.5 in.