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In January 2025 I had 3d scans of Chief Rob created to fabricate a larger than life bronze for Wainer Woods, a historical Wampanoag family farm in Westport MA. This property was purchased by a biracial Indigenous/African American man named Paul Cuffe and his brother in law Michael Wainer in 1799. I am collaborating with their living descendant Chief Rob to create a monument in homage to both Michael Wainer and Paul Cuffe, two under recognized historical people of color from Westport, Massachusetts who together accomplished an extraordinary amount in their lives. Since Boston fireman Chief Rob is a descendant of both Cuffe and Wainer, I decided to scan him as a model for the figure. Chief Rob expressed that he didn’t think people in the South Coast knew what an Eastern Native Woodland Indian from Westport even looked like, and after much discussion we decided that acknowledging local Wampanoag people that lived here before colonization superseded the need for a Paul Cuffe tribute. So this first sculpture is entitled “Eastern Native Woodland Indian as imagined by Chief 2 Running Elk”. In it’s final state, It will be a larger than life bronze sculpture that will sit in a field at Wainer Woods Farm in Westport which faces eastward towards the rising sun. Everything about how the Chief is clothed and looks is his choice, and the clothes and tools he is wearing are significant to his role as a chief . Hopefully in the near future we will also be able to create a much needed monument to honor Captain Paul Cuffe of Westport- Sea Captain, Ship Builder, Importer/Exporter, Abolitionist, Educator, Innovater. For more details about the process of creating this monument please click here.

As part of my thesis while earning my MFA at UMass Dartmouth in 2019, I began to create generative artworks. These four pieces, arising from my QR series, are each printed on metal. Alternating triangular and circular forms, they are interactive pieces which invite viewers to scan each of them individually with a smartphone directing them to a digital component of the work. I am thrilled my work was selected along with the many incredible artists for the new Google building in Cambridge MA. Photography courtesy of Google LLC. Thank you @google @lifecrush for choosing my work, and @art_work.s for making it happen

From August 11, to September 22nd, 2023 Merri’s photos of jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove will be showing at Narrows Center in Fall River, MA. The images were taken by Merri in 1997 for his album, “Habana.” Funded by the Fall River Cultural Council

Jeff Buckley Eternal Life – an exhibition by Merri Cyr, curated by Guido Harari for the Locus festival 2022. Images, music and encounters on the 25th anniversary of Jeff Buckley’s passing. Special guests: Joan As Police Woman, Merri Cyr, Diodato, Carlo Massarini, Guido Harari, Luca De Gennaro. Official partner: BCC Locorotondo. From 31 July to 4 September 2022 in Locorotondo (BA), Italy.

Nature Meditations- Merri’s photo based abstracts

Spiritualist images for the album cover of the Brooklyn band, Violet Mine

Kids Being Kids

March 2020

ANOMALY: These past weeks I have made a series of images. My chickens used to produce perfectly formed eggs. As the year 2020 began, I started to see anomalies. I wondered why and began to examine them more closely.