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\u201cI always feel like this mad scientist alone in my house thinking, \u2018Okay, how do I put this into words?\u2019\u201d says Gabi Abr\u00e3o, the LA-born artist-influencer otherwise known as @sighswoon<\/span><\/a>. Her work is animated by an ecstatic desire to find a language for her lived experience and translate it into other creative mediums. An internet alchemist, Gabi has a particular way of infusing her philosophical musings with a grounded quality not commonly found on platforms like Instagram or Twitter. You may have been greeted by one of her viral \u201cdigital resting points<\/span><\/a>\u201d in your recent scrolling sessions, for instance. To come across her content is to momentarily float in an otherwise choppy digital sea. <\/i>For Gabi, social media is just somewhere she can jot things down, realize ideas, manifest inspiration \u2013 she sees it as \u201ca notepad for creatives.\u201d She just riffs. While the internet is where Gabi originally cultivated her artistic identity (initially through very wholesome memes), she\u2019s entering a new creative phase with the forthcoming publication of her first tangible, paper-and-ink book, aptly titled Notes on Shapeshifting<\/i>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":100220,"id":100220,"title":"Screenshot 2022-06-02 at 16.59.02","filename":"Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","filesize":717581,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/this-infinity-mirror-of-free-expression-gabi-abrao-on-ambient-love-and-the-metaphysics-of-social-media\/screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16-59-02\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16-59-02","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":100198,"date":"2022-06-02 14:59:44","modified":"2022-06-02 14:59:44","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1071,"height":711,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","medium-width":1071,"medium-height":711,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","medium_large-width":1071,"medium_large-height":711,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","large-width":1071,"large-height":711,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","1536x1536-width":1071,"1536x1536-height":711,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","2048x2048-width":1071,"2048x2048-height":711,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.59.02.png","wpvr_mobile-width":1071,"wpvr_mobile-height":711}},{"ID":100212,"id":100212,"title":"image2","filename":"image2.jpeg","filesize":503798,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image2.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/this-infinity-mirror-of-free-expression-gabi-abrao-on-ambient-love-and-the-metaphysics-of-social-media\/image2-3\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"image2-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":100198,"date":"2022-06-02 14:49:35","modified":"2022-06-02 14:49:35","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image2.jpeg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image2.jpeg","medium-width":1440,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image2.jpeg","medium_large-width":1440,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image2.jpeg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image2-1152x1536.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image2.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image2.jpeg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image2.jpeg","wpvr_mobile-width":1440,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Gabi Abr\u00e3o (@sighswoon)"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

It\u2019s important to know that Gabi is radiant, endowed with the kind of effortless grace associated with fresh linens and blooming orchids. She seems to inhabit a perpetual golden hour and speaks with a certain clarity that somehow also refines the edges of your own thoughts \u2013 a contagious lucidity. \u201cWe\u2019re actually quite simple and everything to be said has already been said,\u201d she shares. \u201cThe experience of humans on Earth is really just this infinity mirror of free expression.\u201d Combine this philosophical heft with what she calls her \u201cVirgo aesthetic\u201d and I suspect that this is part of what has earned her such a devoted community \u2013 they just want to linger in the quiet charisma of her calm.<\/p>\n

It’s less that she has an \u201caudience\u201d of 141,000 Instagram followers and more that she has 141,000 witnesses: Gabi just peels back the curtains and lets people in on her creative process and emotional journey. Somehow you can tell that everything she writes, everything she posts, is all done for herself, for her own amusement, first and foremost. And people gravitate towards that energy. \u201cNow you have an archive of what are pretty much a bunch of journal entries and notes from creators. How great is that?\u201d she asks, referring to social media. \u201cI would love to have seen that for certain artists I love who didn\u2019t have the Internet just to watch them evolve.\u201d One such source of creative inspiration and influence is Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (whom Gabi quotes in her book): \u201cI feel like she gave me permission to be myself in a way,\u201d she muses. \u201cAny artist or musician or anyone that I end up getting attached to, it\u2019s because I feel like they give me permission for something.\u201d The infinity mirror of expression continues its loop: that same sense of radical permission overflows from Gabi\u2019s own work.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":100218,"id":100218,"title":"Screenshot 2022-06-02 at 16.57.44","filename":"Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","filesize":689789,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/this-infinity-mirror-of-free-expression-gabi-abrao-on-ambient-love-and-the-metaphysics-of-social-media\/screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16-57-44\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16-57-44","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":100198,"date":"2022-06-02 14:59:26","modified":"2022-06-02 14:59:26","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1073,"height":716,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","medium-width":1073,"medium-height":716,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","medium_large-width":1073,"medium_large-height":716,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","large-width":1073,"large-height":716,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","1536x1536-width":1073,"1536x1536-height":716,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","2048x2048-width":1073,"2048x2048-height":716,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.57.44.png","wpvr_mobile-width":1073,"wpvr_mobile-height":716}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":"Gabi Abr\u00e3o (@sighswoon)"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Our conversation about social media and love in its many forms (romantic love, self-love, universal love) casually evolves into a discourse on metaphysics, except better because it has no jargon. When commenting on the notion of love itself, Gabi stays on brand and immediately links it to illusion (she co-hosts a podcast called Illusion Pod<\/i><\/span><\/a>): \u201cSo much of life is sweeping away illusions to let you see what\u2019s really there,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd love is there all the time, but I think it exists in various magnifications depending on what we believe or what we\u2019ve been told to believe.\u201d So much of what we\u2019ve been told to believe is that the most valuable form of love is romantic, and that it must be linear and eternal or otherwise reduced to failure. But Gabi follows Heraclitus in recognizing that change and death are the only certainties on this terrestrial plane. While love is also subject to change and endings, this doesn\u2019t extinguish or invalidate it. Ultimately, it\u2019s still everywhere: \u201cGreat feelings like love feel familiar,\u201d she shares. \u201cWhen I feel a wave of love, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, there it is again,\u2019 like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s visiting.\u2019 When I experience that, I feel that love really is the baseline and all of this other stuff that takes our attention and that we manipulate and put ourselves through, that\u2019s the chaos \u2013 that\u2019s the illusion. Because, otherwise, how come love just feels so familiar?\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":100215,"id":100215,"title":"image7","filename":"image7.jpeg","filesize":280681,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image7.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/this-infinity-mirror-of-free-expression-gabi-abrao-on-ambient-love-and-the-metaphysics-of-social-media\/image7\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"image7","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":100198,"date":"2022-06-02 14:50:00","modified":"2022-06-02 14:50:00","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image7.jpeg","thumbnail-width":77,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image7.jpeg","medium-width":1440,"medium-height":1800,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image7.jpeg","medium_large-width":1440,"medium_large-height":1800,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image7.jpeg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1800,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image7-1229x1536.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1229,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image7.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1800,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image7.jpeg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image7.jpeg","wpvr_mobile-width":1440,"wpvr_mobile-height":1800}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Gabi Abr\u00e3o (@sighswoon)"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

When I ask whether love can ever be free of illusions, she ventures, \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any escape from illusions. But I think just knowing that they\u2019re there can be nice. It takes the pressure off.\u201d In a world of illusions, we can abandon our gestures towards perfection \u2013 all those painful and fated efforts to accurately convey ourselves to the world. We can stop taking our performances so seriously and understand them as universal. \u201cEveryone always hates on creators or influencers or actors or, you know, people who put themselves out there,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, \u2018No, we\u2019re all performing.\u2019 Those people just happen to be comfortable doing it out in the open. But it\u2019s everyone \u2013 we all perform. That\u2019s how we survive. And I think it\u2019s great. It\u2019s a great time.\u201d To rest easy in the fact that we live lives mediated by layers of illusions is to liberate oneself from the gravity of self-disclosure. It is to recognize ourselves as works in progress. \u201cSocial media can make us aware of our inevitable performance as a little beings on Earth, and we can kind of giggle with and get to know ourselves,\u201d Gabi explains. \u201cBut it can also be viewed as an isolated me-against-an-audience or me-with-an-audience experience. It can go both ways. 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While her vision is inflected by a certain existential humility, instead of shying away from the necessary self-interest that accompanies creation and performance, Gabi leans into it: \u201cSelf-interest, to me, is not a bad word. I’m interested in what I can extract from all my experiences and all the sensations I’m feeling.\u201d It\u2019s this will to self-knowledge, this drive to refine and better convey her experience, that motivates her artistic practice. The negative connotation of self-interest largely derives from the assumption that people, particularly women, must be drastically available and other-oriented in their loving relationships. Gabi reveals that she \u201cbecame a way better person and a way better partner\u201d once she realized her need for solitude and began embracing her identity as a self-interested creator. \u201cCreators really need to make peace with their self-interest, even with their narcissism, because that’s part of the deal,\u201d she explains. \u201cYou’re sitting there, you’re making stuff, you’re alone with yourself. There’s so much self-involvement. Make peace with it so you won’t be confused or abuse it. I want my artists to be self-interested because then I get more information. Like, keep it coming, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabi Abr\u00e3o offers you permission. She offers you permission to not only to revel in your creative solitude, but to indulge in your performance of self and tap into that eternal frequency of ambient love. \u201cThe internet can sometimes encourage us to feel like a lot of things \u2013 like love, creativity, information \u2013 are outside of us,\u201d she reflects. \u201cBut, really, I think it\u2019s all in us already.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":100205,"id":100205,"title":"01-MOTH-Front","filename":"01-MOTH-Front.png","filesize":1616473,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/01-MOTH-Front.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/this-infinity-mirror-of-free-expression-gabi-abrao-on-ambient-love-and-the-metaphysics-of-social-media\/01-moth-front\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"01-moth-front","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":100198,"date":"2022-06-02 14:32:26","modified":"2022-06-02 14:32:26","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1242,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/01-MOTH-Front.png","thumbnail-width":62,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/01-MOTH-Front.png","medium-width":1242,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/01-MOTH-Front.png","medium_large-width":1242,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/01-MOTH-Front.png","large-width":1242,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/01-MOTH-Front-994x1536.png","1536x1536-width":994,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/01-MOTH-Front-1325x2048.png","2048x2048-width":1325,"2048x2048-height":2048,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/01-MOTH-Front.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/01-MOTH-Front-1325x2048.png","wpvr_mobile-width":1325,"wpvr_mobile-height":2048}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":"Notes on Shapeshifting by Gabi Abr\u00e3o"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Notes on Shapeshifting<\/i> will be released on September 13, 2022. 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