With Meko’s intentionally limited color palette, he captures the essence of nightfall deep in nature, where the stars constellations of space matter, move with the wind and fill the atmosphere alongside the presence of histories, fables, ancestors, and glimmers of the unknown ahead. The blotches and lines of all of Michi’s work are extremely calculated to be divisible integers as his mathematical intentions represent understanding the land both ancestrally and contemporarily.

Working out of a dark studio, dimly lit by warm lanterns, Meko builds diffused gestures that generate light with varying degrees of luminescence. These sources can be read as star spotlights, mountain peaks, extraterrestrial incandescence, or cosmic radiance, each reinforcing the connection between land, humanity, and celestial force. The materials employed in his practice: aerosol, recalling his early work in Atlanta’s underground graffiti scene; and deep blues and blacks, both metaphorical for music, the Black American narrative, and the threshold between night and dawn. Meko is currently considering “Black erasure” through historical, intellectual, and land-based lenses. In this work, the central black gesture operates as a cosmic Black hole, directly linking the intensity and gravitational pull of such a phenomenon to the weight and force of American and diasporic Black culture.