Did We Meet At The Gallery?

Mye Coates, Founder of MERBOH Art Lab

Oh hey, glad you found me! — If I had to sum myself up in one line, it’d go something like this: I’m the upside down, the inside out, and the left on the right. Translation? I gravitate toward ideas that flip convention on its head. I’m endlessly curious, slow to accept anything at face value, wired to create and very well-read.

I majored in business management at school (boring) and spent years climbing the corporate ladder at a Fortune 500 company with a concentration in tech. Cue the plot twist that helped me find my true calling: I forged a unicorn role for myself becoming the in-house storyteller — translating complex systems into visual narratives for C-suite leaders. With total creative autonomy, hundreds of original assets, and a crash course in balancing logic with imagination — That experience shaped my current ethos as an artist, it was the activation.

My aesthetic? Modern minimalism meets playful soul — airy, industrial, and futuristic, anchored with moody academic undertones and just enough quirky oddities to make you tilt your head. I love recontextualizing the familiar — pulling objects and images from their expected places and assembling them into something unapologetically offbeat — Check out my IG playground MercantileBohemian because clicking is more discreet :)

I see design as an open-ended question — function is negotiable, form is holographic, context is fluid, and creativity is the one rule that bends them all.

Outer space also fascinates me! The stars tell stories I can’t resist with endless sparkle, boundless mystery and effervescent galaxies spinning in the abyss. I’m like a deer in headlights whenever I see images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Questions arise in me: Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we headed?  Like a cosmic riddle, it reminds me of the creative process itself — vast, full of wonder and brimming with infinite possibilities. And so here I sit as a freelance creative, broadcasting from my own unique coordinates in space — passion-led, purpose-fed, and diving into the stardust ahead! 

Some of the things that light me up are scrolling below!