Meia is a 15 year old student at a high school on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The art teacher had asked the class to close their eyes and visualize what they see from the words, Katrita, short for Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita and draw or paint it. She started sketching an idea on paper and the teacher was so excited about what she came up with that he asked her to paint it on the wall in the art room to share with others for years to come. It is painted on a wall made of concrete blocks. The bottom corner of a lone picture frame brings the viewer into the picture as if the incident was emptied from the frame and poured into life.
Meia wrote a poem and placed it in the black circle to express herself on the topic of Life and Art. Enjoy!
Art is facts. Be. Long too,
mother. Mother, too, longs
to be art not fact. Mother, too,
longs to belong. The heart is fact.
The heart be’s. The heart longs,
too. The heart is two. The heart
mothers. The heart is art.
The heart is a bee. The heart
is long. The heart is mother.
The heart smothers. Facts
have no heart. Facts are not art.
Facts do not belong. Facts
have no mother. Art is art.
Fact is fact. Be is be. Mother
is not always mother. The heart
never acts. The heart, alas,
is an artifact that belongs
to no one. Not even mother.
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