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Michi Meko USA, b. 1973

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Michi Meko, Confusion: Different South. San Antonio, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Michi Meko, Confusion: Different South. San Antonio, 2023
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Michi Meko USA, b. 1973

Confusion: Different South. San Antonio, 2023
Acrylic, aerosol, oil pastel, gouache, gold leaf, hologram glitter, white colored pencil on linen
22 x 30 x 2 in.
55.9 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm
8905

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Michi Meko, Wishes: A Promise to Send Us Into Ourselves. Free to Travel, Adrift From Our Pagan Land, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Michi Meko, Wishes: A Promise to Send Us Into Ourselves. Free to Travel, Adrift From Our Pagan Land, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Michi Meko, Wishes: A Promise to Send Us Into Ourselves. Free to Travel, Adrift From Our Pagan Land, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Michi Meko, Wishes: A Promise to Send Us Into Ourselves. Free to Travel, Adrift From Our Pagan Land, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Michi Meko, Wishes: A Promise to Send Us Into Ourselves. Free to Travel, Adrift From Our Pagan Land, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) Michi Meko, Wishes: A Promise to Send Us Into Ourselves. Free to Travel, Adrift From Our Pagan Land, 2019
Michi Meko created this painting while in residence at artpace, a nonprofit residency program in San Antonio, Texas. The title,Confusion: Different South. San Antonio, relates to Meko’s ideas about the...
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Michi Meko created this painting while in residence at artpace, a nonprofit residency program in San Antonio, Texas. The title,Confusion: Different South. San Antonio, relates to Meko’s ideas about the correlation between inner and outer wildernesses. Meko has spent thousands of hours hiking, camping, and fishing in the wilds of his home state of Georgia. Embarking on similar trips in Texas, he found himself completely unprepared for the audacious environmental differences. “Having to confront that difference is a physical thing,” Meko says, “ but then it’s also about what that means psychologically.” Lines and patterns intersecting within the layers of the composition suggest the visual language of mapping, while the forms and colors evoke the native plantlike of the South Texas desert. The danger and unforgiving harshness of the outside environment brought Meko closer into contact with his inner harshness. "I began thinking about those agave plants and cacti as just different versions of abstractions that I could arrive at from looking at what’s in front of me,” Meko says. “I started thinking about how we, or I, most of us, have these aggressive sides and abstractions within us as well.”
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