Shahai (photograph + haiku) © by Mark Meyer. All rights reserved.

Shahai (photograph + haiku) © by Mark Meyer. All rights reserved.

Haiga (visual art + haiku) © by Mark Meyer. All rights reserved.

Publisher’s Note: The shahai and haiga above appear here with the artist’s permission and are reproduced from his Facebook page.

Mark Meyer

has been a visual artist for almost forever, and describes himself this way: “ex-scientist/ quasi-artist/ semi-poet/ pseudo-guitarist/ meta-misanthrope.” He lives in his head in the middle of Lake Washington and loves dogs, guitars, the moon, Japan, ales, and sundry other diversions. Now in his seventies, he was a neurobiologist in a prior lifetime long ago—and still really misses looking through microscopes.

Meyer’s short-form poetry has been widely published, and he is the author of two collections of selected poetry and artwork published by 3dotstudio: Old Flames & Burned Bridges (2023) and neo-Nothyngge (2020).

Meyer’s artwork is represented by Davidson Galleries in Seattle and is held in multiple collections. His paintings, drawings, and digital prints continue his interest in pattern-driven compositions, richly detailed, leaving almost no space unaddressed. As he says, “...there are no big plans or schemes in my work ... it’s simply enough to find out where these individual small ‘experiments’ lead me.” Inspired by scientific, societal, psychological, and theological considerations, his artworks reflect the complex and frenetic condition of our contemporary culture.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡Featured Works by Mark Meyer at Davidson Galleries (Seattle, Washington)

⚡Texas Requiem, haibun in MacQueen’s Quinterly aka MacQ (Issue 20, September 2023)

⚡More than a dozen of Meyer’s haiga and poems appear in MacQ; see Index of Contributors for the list.