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Little Acorn Book of Dreams #1
Acorn, thread, watercolor paintings
1.5 l x 1″ w
Little Acorn Book of Dreams #1 holds hand-painted watercolor pages of greens, blues, purples, and pinks. An exercise in the miniature, the book’s circular pages and architecture suggest play, possibility, and life as mysterious blank canvas.
Meia Geddes 
Instagram: @meiageddes
BIO
Meia (pronounced may-ah) Geddes lives in Boston as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, writer, and artist. She holds a BA in English and Literary Arts from Brown University and MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons University. Beginning in Fall 2024 she will be an MFA candidate at UMass Boston.
Meia is particularly fond of painting birds in watercolor and experimenting with how form can most ideally align with content. She is the author of The Little Queen, a novella about vocation and finding one’s place in the world, and Love Letters to the World, a book of missives addressed to the world as body, concept, and stranger.
Meia founded Poetose, a company whose mission is to spread the love, contribute to the literary landscape of Boston and beyond, and create beautiful things such as miniature book earrings.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I say that my love letters to the world are addressed to the world as body, concept, and stranger. Applying this to my work in general, I hope it is addressing that individual before me as a flesh-and-blood body on a more personal individual level, that the work is in conversation with the world more conceptually, and that it leaves space for the unknown, that stranger we will never know on the other side (whether this is a mysterious reader, the murky unplumbed depths of oneself, or an entity that exists along the lines of negative capability).
In many ways, my work is utopic and envisions the beautiful possibilities of what could be. I hope that any utopic visions and projects of love I share with the world have an impact on other readers, writers, and artists in terms of the possibilities they can see in theory on the page and in reality, creating never-ending circles of literary and artistic utopia at the very least.