The Art of Life
In Enuma Okoro’s weekly column in the FT, Michi Meko’s work is featured in a reflection on agency, interconnectedness, and renewal at the start of a new year. Okoro examines how Meko’s layered use of materials—fish scales, fishing line, paint, and everyday staples—embodies themes of ecology, loss, and continuity, suggesting that individual actions, however small, are inseparable from the larger systems that shape our world.
“It makes me think of how our lives are made up of all these thin connecting threads that overlap and converge while holding our little universes together. It could be worth holding this work in our thoughts as a reminder that everything is connected. Our words, our thoughts, our daily gestures, our professional initiatives, how we engage in our personal relationships: they all come together to showcase the type of world we are creating for ourselves and for others” Okoro states.
