allison harrell mistier

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

Love is the original energy. Our real power lies with energy. It can be used to reshape or create matter. The story we choose becomes consciousness. Where we direct our attention and what kind of energy we offer to it become reality. My art expands on love and lifting frequencies from within and outward where consciousness becomes shared and amplified. We can all amplify something. My practice focuses on spreading love and searching for teammates in the race against apathy and abuse. These messages (reflections from love) become physical manifestations using reflective surfaces, light, images, words, and new media. The choice of reflective surfaces and light is literal. Reflective surfaces allude to inner reflection and light because they are energy. To communicate my imagination, I rely on figuration and symbols, color, and principles of light in my artwork. In recent years I’ve added sculptural materials to image-making. They materialize my response to impacting cultural trends and events. Dimensional and new media formats of word art assemble my response as a global citizen. I’m drawn to reflective and light-emitting materials, because light is energy. The presence of light helps energize the message. My newest works seek the mythology of self, which connects us to the power of our subconscious and its revealing ties to our shared human condition. It supplies the narrative that empowers more profound self-knowledge and our relationship with others. I have developed a...

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