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In 2014 Melissa Meyer was commissioned by the Art in Embassies program to create a large outdoor mural for the entrance to a new American Embassy in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan. The composition joins a watercolor background to a symmetrically mirrored pictograph derived from an earlier black and white oilstick drawing. She travelled there to research re- gional textile motifs and established a surrounding border populated with symbols she had observed along with others that she invented. The mural titled Counterparts was created digitally has been fabricated in glazed ceramic tile and will be installed in the spring of 2016. Meyer welcomed the challenge of working in a new process and medium and as often happens the subsequent oil paintings reflect certain influences from the mural as they incorporate new approaches to composition and color. Two recent medium-sized diptychs Entangled and Twosome Too share with the mural a bright warm-hued back- ground and a compositionally independent foreground layer of interconnected gestures in predominately dark blues. Character Set Draw the Line and Couplet restrict the role played by color to a minimum and echo the figure-ground structure of the mural along with some of its Counterparts 2015 8 x 14 feet glazed ceramic tile