"That hollow feeling when emotional depths seem unreachable, yet the yearning remains."
THE OPATHIAN STATE
ABOUT US
Twenty years as a sleep clinician taught me one thing most people miss.
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The ones who couldn't rest, they weren't broken.
They held everything together so well the only place it came apart was at 3am or in a down moment.
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I sat with that person for twenty years. Then I became them.
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Nobody witnessed me the way I had witnessed others.
That changed what I do.
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Not being solved. Being seen.
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Hello, I am Bill BIstak
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I work with people who feel disconnected from themselves, and make photographs for the same reason I write.
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To find the shape of what can't be said.
How It Works
1. Apply
Share a little about where you are
2. Connection
We ensure this right for you.
3. Session
A guided present experience
4. Reflection
Image as a result of the moment
Photography
Surreal Miniature Photography Images that exist at the boundary between he seen and the almost-remembered. Original prints, digital files, and the Opathian collection, exploring that hollow place where feeling should be but is not. No A.I. Made by hand in Toronto.
Structured Listening Sessions
60 minutes. You do not have to convince anyone that you are worth listening to.​ The first 15 minutes are free. 60 minute session.​ I do not offer therapy or quick fixes. I offer what saved me: the experience of being witnessed. I take up to 15 applicants at a time. You must be 21 or older English Only USA and select international applicants welcome Now taking applicants ​​ ​ ​​ ​
ORIGINAL WORKS
Featured Original Photographs and from the Opathian Collection
ORIGINAL WORKS
Featured Book
Two altar boys. Funeral masses.
One of them is holding steady
while the other comes apart.
The Gate is a spiritual fiction about transformation from inside Dissociation and the Opathian state
and what happens when the thing you used to survive becomes the thing you have to leave behind.
It is the story that started all of this.
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The Gate
