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# Untitled
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/020704-story/
- Published: 2004-02-07T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:44:36.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Meraz will transform the Project Room into a cocoon-like environment inhabited by a series of unlikely sculptures, creating a macrocosm of skeletal interventions. He explains within this cavernous space, the sculptures “gather unsequentially, roamers, as notations emerge like cities that have come and gone.”

The range of complex and fragile forms, as well as the memories and experiences they evoke, are reflected in Meraz’s amalgamated and fractured title, according to museum officials.

Meraz constructs intricate objects and alternative worlds infused with humor and wonder from the likes of Popsicle sticks, felt, toothpicks, plywood and newspapers — a cityscape formed of paper bags, a book transfigured into the infinity of a Mobius strip and a unplayable musical instrument encased in a warren of top secret compartments, according to museum officials.

“My work investigates subtleties between motion and paralysis,” Meraz said. He sees his art “as a vehicle to channel through or filter the ever accumulating of information.” And an exploration of the relationship between “the malleability of an idea, and the potentiality of a thing that functions and dysfunction, both seen and unseen.”

The Santa Monica Museum of Art is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., excluding holidays.

For further information about exhibitions and educational programming, call 310-586- 6488 or visit www.smmoa.org.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 7, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/020704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)