Meka Tome (b. 1999) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA, and Providence, RI. She studied commercial photography before earning a BFA in Sculpture & New Genres from Otis College of Art and Design, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Glass at Rhode Island School of Design. She has collaborated on and produced ecologically focused projects with organizations including Metabolic Studio and Forecast Foundation.
Tome investigates the interplay of environmental and cognitive processes, negotiating impermanence and preservation within lived and material systems. Her practice explores perception, memory, and the mechanisms that shape experience through phenomenological, temporal, and embodied means.
Her early photography training informs her technical, process-driven approach and personal affinity for light, which often manifests through analog techniques and interaction with glass, water, and organic materials. Through her work, she constructs conditions in which material and experiential processes reveal entangled relationships and the agency of matter across human and environmental systems.