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"HEARTS CROSSING" PAINTING 48" x 48"

"HEARTS CROSSING" PAINTING 48" x 48"

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"Hearts Crossing," 48" x 48", Oil on Stretched Canvas, 2024, by Luke Mizer

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"As I work on a painting, a mystery unfolds, its immediacy fills me, and the internal enthusiasm I feel is intimacy with self. My hands start drawing and when that feels complete I add a brighter color under the dark drawing to give it a breathing space. And as I trust the painting and my body to give me more information I make another mark and let the layers come. I play with the textures, vastness, and the spaces between. 

I have been deeply involved with art forms all my life. From early on I enjoyed drawing people in my notebook and documenting the little things I noticed about life by regularly taking photos of people and their surroundings. Stepping on a stage or film set as an actor is another way I use to engage in layering and colors.

I've learned that when I let go of expectations and favorite details in an abstract painting it is the same as stepping out of what's expected and reimagining details about a character's life I’m playing. One of the things that surprised me was to learn that there isn’t much of a difference between a visual artist’s sketchbook and the actor’s character journal; they both capture ideas as to movement and experiences.

I love hearing what people see in my abstract pieces. I enjoy being surprised by what a viewer says and hearing how someone else's imagination interprets my piece activates my own imagination and can fuel the next piece. I see myself as an artist of life and that manifests itself in various forms: when I paint, take photographs, or tell a story on film."

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