✨ HOW TO BE SEEN: A Somatic Portrait Workshop ✨
A gathering for tender and soul-level reflection
hosted by Mengwen Cao & Sunset Studio
in collaboration with Worlds Through Minds at Fugue Gallery
Friday, 6/20/2025 4-6pm
Sliding Scale: $22 $33 $44 (Venmo @mwcao)
What if your attention could be a gift of love?
Would you allow yourself to be seen?
How to Be Seen is a tender, embodied workshop for artists, image-makers, and sensitive souls who want to reimagine photography as a practice of connection and devotion.
We’ll ground into our bodies, soften our gaze, and gently co-create portraits with each other. You’ll leave not only more rooted in your presence, but with images of yourself made by someone who saw you with love.
Whether you’re a photographer or just someone curious to feel more alive in your skin, this space is for you.
✨ Workshop Flow (2hrs)
– Somatic Grounding to arrive fully in your body
– Gentle Gazing Exercises (solo & partner)
– Collaborative Portrait Practice (with phone or camera)
– Sharing Circle + Reflection
What to Bring:
– Your phone or camera (Dazz Cam & NOMO Cam recommended if using a phone)
– An open heart
– Optional: a creative buddy to join you
This is also a soft opening into somatic photography—an emerging space of witnessing, intimacy, and embodied storytelling. It may be the first of many.
Stay after for the artist mixer and connect with a wider creative community.
Spots are limited. [Max 20]
RSVP to claim yours.
Come as you are.
Leave with images made by love.
Plant a seed for your own seeing practice.