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Actress and film producer Lucy Liu, expands from Charlie’s Angels to inspired artist

LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- Actress and film producer Lucy Liu is expanding her talents into the art world with a new book of illustrations that explores Kabbalah and meditation. Liu, 42, best known for roles in television series “Ally McBeal” and in the “Charlie’s Angels” movies, worked out of her Chelsea studio in Manhattan to create a series of abstract black-and-white illustrations using ink and acrylic paint on watercolor paper that were compiled into a book, “Lucy Liu: Seventy Two,” released last month. The series of paintings was based on a chart of 72 names of God in the Kabbalah, a mystical branch of Judaism. While not a practitioner of Kabbalah, Liu was inspired by the names. “I felt drawn to the chart because I thought it was so fascinating,” Liu told Reuters. “I love the way they categorize everything into boxes, I love the organization of that.” The Kabbalah