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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Festa 6 ArmsCrossed copy

Donna Festa, Arms Crossed, oil on wood, 5.5 x 5.5 in.

Festa 5 Man copy

Donna Festa, Man, oil on wood, 5 x 5.5 in.

Festa 7 ManWithYellowShirt copy

Donna Festa, Man with Yellow Shirt, oil on wood, 5.5 x 5.5 in.

Festa 12 Hair copy

Donna Festa, Hair, oil on wood, 5.5 x 5.5 in.

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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.