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Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself: Augmented Reality Art, Healing Endometriosis & The Path of True Freedom

Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself: Augmented Reality Art, Healing Endometriosis & The Path of True Freedom

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Experience an AR-interactive book on healing endometriosis & the path of true freedom

This award-winning book has recently earned acclaim from the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Awards as a finalist in both categories of Art & Illustration.  It is based on the first year of Meredith Ochoa's Every Phase series.  The complete series will span a total of 13 years.  

You may have heard of "a sketch a day" or other "everyday" projects like the crypto art record-breaking sale of Beeple's Everydays, in which Beeple created an image from start to finish every day for thirteen years.

These "everyday" projects are a reflection of how our world values regularity and completion within a 24-hour cycle-- "the man's clock".

Literally, testosterone is highest in the morning, notice how we begin work around 9 AM, and then beings to drop off in the evening around 5 PM--hence the 9-5 workday.  Now nothing against men's biological clock, but the timing of our world is run in a way that's pretty one-sided, benefiting testosterone. A short circuit battery (male) compared to a long circuit (female)--neither one being better but different.

However, this framework doesn't account for the infradian rhythm, the 28-day cycle that women experience. 

 

While men follow a daily rhythm, women's completeness lies in each phase of this monthly cycle, much like the seasons of the Earth.  The contrast of these ideas, which Meredith learned about in her quest for answers to healing her debilitating endometriosis pain, became the inspiration for her 'Every Phase' series, which she began in April 2021. 

The series is focused on how she healed herself with the lesser-known female infradian rhythm 28-day clock in contrast to the masculine, 24-hour clock or 'everyday' lifestyle.

So just like Beeple's record-breaking NFT project, Everydays: The First 5000 Days, she decided to create a piece of art from start to completion, not every day, but every phase that will continue for the next thirteen years (approximately five-thousand days). 

She named the series 'Every Phase' with the accompanying art of each phase metaphorically illustrating the different brain and body chemistry of what's occurring during that particular phase.

Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself is an AR-interactive art book that illustrates her journey of healing by telling yourself the truth.  Augmented Reality (AR) interaction allows for the marriage of both the physical & digital worlds, enabling the artwork to be experienced in more than one format.

This first book captures the first year of the series, from April 2021 to December 2021, and consists of 6 cycles, or 24 phases. 

 

'Live the Art' 

with me as I create art that illustrates how I healed myself while I live by the phases of the female hormonal cycle in my ongoing series. 🩸

👉Subscribe to receive the latest art of the current phase & learn more about all of the art by visiting the Every Phase Gallery. 

🎧Discover the experts, science & practices that helped me achieve what I thought was impossible by listening to the Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself Podcast

 

BOOK tips + how to interact with the AR

COVER + health resources

✔️ There is a health resources QR code in the back with information on the modalities, doctors and health advocates that helped me heal.  Fingerprints on the cover can be wiped off with a damp paper towel and allowed to dry.

✔️ DOWNLOAD OVERLY APP

Make sure you are connected to Wifi  & make sure the Overly app is updated (before scanning any images)

✔️ IF AN IMAGE WON'T SCAN

Try getting closer to the image or one of the images (if it is on a spread), or move further back.  Low contrast images or minimalist images may not scan well, or may take longer.  When scanning, make sure there isn't a lot of glare on the book, and that the pages are as flat as possible.

✔️ Augmented reality (AR) works in the book & in real life

AR technology recognizes image markers so you can also scan the same interactive images in the book, art prints or on the wall (for hanging art), or on the computer screen.

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