Ceramic Sculpture
Installations
Collaborations
Prior Work
Meyer's graduate study was largely about the influence of place on imagination. Ironically, studio efforts were to celebrate the forms and aesthetics of Asian vessels exclusively. As he relocated in the deep South, imagination engaged without restriction and the work found literal applications in the relationship between dwelling and relocation. Unearthed land markers, robbed of their intended meaning, offered meager habitation and industrial manipulations of the earth evidence their consequences. Gradually, the house, still a vessel, was presented in relation to rootedness and upheaval. With his interest in industrial tools, his arrival on the crucible form was likely. His fifteen year exploration of that form in industrial and alchemical contexts supplied endless inspiration. Though clay remained the central medium, the University of Montevallo was a non-territorial environment in which cast metal, steel fabrication and wood offered additional vocabulary and structure.