Mr. M is sometimes melancholy and uncertain, sometimes sentimental -- we see memories of childhood made visible by Meister's brush, revealing a duality of vision many of us share by reaching for our hopes while remembering a simpler past. Mr. M is acutely aware of the beauty of the world around him, both welcoming and sometimes overwhelming. A transplant from somewhere else, he is a traveler in both mind and space, pursuing the sometimes conflicting pleasures of exploration and the wish to put down roots. This book was created from a selection of Soizick Meister's Mr. M paintings that seemed to tell a story of their own.