welcome!

17 Mar welcome!

hello and thank you for coming to see my art.

i used to keep a general blog about my life, my views and my art.  i will likely do the same here.  i have books and books and books also filled with words about my life, where i have been and what i have done….it’s been a sweet ride that’s for sure.  i have lived in baltimore for close to seven years but am moving to san antonio at the end of june….that’s just insane so my art making is on the back seat in the sun right now….lighters are super convenient so i will be making those perhaps a few more pieces perhaps reflecting on my time in this wonderfully weird city.

so for this, my first blog post….welcome and ask me whatever i am pretty open…..and a little crazy.  which brings me to my old pal TWM.

on my about me page i asked a few old close pals to write a blurb about what they felt when they saw my art….so i of course asked TWM because he wrote a BOOK and he’s a writer and he’s one of the nicest strangest surrealist people i have had the pleasure to meet and who still is my distant far away friend…..so instead of writing a sentence or two, TWM asked me a few questions about my art and he wrote up a whole piece about me!  it’s so fucking weird but it’s really fucking cool.

thank you TWM so so much.  it swelled my heart organ.

so here’s what he wrote….have a great day!

It all started in 1994-1995 when Meesh was living in Dallas. This “nice, weird person” met “some other nice weirdos” who taught her how to make art.

Political climate, women’s health issues, the need for freedom of sexual expression and other issues are the forces that move Meesh to create — even if she doesn’t share all of her work. “It’s what’s going on in the world at the time I’m making something. So my art is dated. Maybe I don’t even know why I make art. I know I have drawers of it. It’s hilarious. I don’t even know what to do with it all.”

Meesh never thought she’d get a show until she had four of them (Dallas, Philadelphia, D.C. and Baltimore) but she still worries that getting a show is what keeps her from creating. In the end, she typically doesn’t make art for anyone but herself. “Lighters are different. I generally make those for specific people. For shows, I’ll make ten or twenty lighters to sell. I don’t make really technical stuff. I make art to evoke a response, absolutely. I want people to take away a feeling. The more visceral the better. I’ve always been this way.”

Meesh, whose graphic work seems to outdo itself at every turn, has long wrestled with maintaining a presence on social media. “I don’t think it’s fair that sexually explicit drawings with ink and pen are okay, but my simple porn college art isn’t. Then I get reported and wind up on their robot list. She reported a few of the fine art depictions which, as an artist, made her feel badly, but she wanted to see what would happen. “I got messages back saying that none of them were violating any terms or agreements. So, drawn nudes are okay but collaged porn isn’t?” Art is subjective. Meesh, resenting not being able to share her art the way she used to on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter figured now was probably a good time to get a website, which offers her a little more freedom of expression.

There are no quick answers to be found among the interwoven circles of porn, sex, politics, artistic expression and what the public finds acceptable but Meesh is undaunted. “I think a lot of things have changed over the past 20 years in our world. Art keeps me feeling okay; making things for specific people helps me, and I like having something to do that’s not destructive.”