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M. Lewis Motter was born Matthew Lewis Motter on April 20, 1979 in Western Pennsylvania. Having spent much of their life in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Having spent much of their early life with their step grandfather who was an old West Virginian mountain man. Learning a simple life of gardening, the natural world, and self-reliance. Their teenage years was spent in the woods of Western Pennsylvania, after their mother reunited with their birth father.

Early Life and Influences

M. Lewis Motter had strong influences of artistic skill, the natural world, and a love of anthropology from their maternal grandfather who was an old river rat and spent his time woodcarving, and collecting Native American stone tools. These influences are very apparent in their life journey. Having studied Environmental Biology and Anthropology at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania(EUP) and later continuing their education at the University of Georgia(UGA) in the fields of Japanese Language and Literature and Anthropology. Life had thrown a curve ball that landed them back in Pennsylvania just shy of a double bachelor's degree in those fields.

Art and writing interests having always been an ambition, they had set that aside as a hobby for many years in pursuit of a family life. Today M. Lewis Motter has self-published both a book of poetry (A Storm Rages Within 2019) and a Novel/Short Story combination (Magic's Rise: The Beginnings of the Jacob Tomaska saga). They are currently residing in Western Pennsylvania working on their current novel and soon to release another book of poetry titled (Beyond the Eye).

Spiritual and Paranormal Studies

M. Lewis Motter spent many years studying the occult and paranormal that intermixed with their studies of paleo-anthropological studies that has created a unique outlook on the intertwining of the spiritual and physical world. In the early 2000's they had co-founded a paranormal group called Paranormal Investigation Team or P.I.T. in which they proved to themself that there is something that they are sensitive to that not everyone is, regardless whether it's spirit contact or some other force.

Having experienced the spiritual world since childhood, M. Lewis Motter has spent much time trying to understand these experiences. This eventually lead to an Apache Medicine Man explaining that they were a Medicine Man as well. Continuing the studies, they came to find that with no Native American Heritage this heritage comes from the Hungarian lineage on their mother's side. They continue to find congruencies in this field of research.

Artwork and Poetry

M. Lewis Motter has been teaching themself digital photo manipulation from August 2018 as a form of what they call Digital Photographic Painting, taking photos and layering them together to make a new image, they say in a way it's almost like a puzzle finding a way to make the photos fit together. Often the images are visual representations to accompany poems as a total representation or an image as part of the poem.

Early on more of a colored pencil or graphite sketch artist, they have more recently progressed primarily into painting, in some cases using the paintings to highlight a culture, which expresses their love of diversity and humanity.