Jason Mehl was born in San Antonio Texas. He was raised in Rockwall and spent his childhood sandwiched between urban sprawl, an artifice he was abhorant to, and a childs riparian paradise guarded for a time from the hellacious impending sprawl. Those years saturated him with an appreciation for nature and he has spent the years since studying nature, appreciating the forms, connections, patterns, and cycles.

In 2002 he graduated with a degree in Environmental Science from Stephen F. Austin University. While living in a tent his last semester of university, the simple and unnoticed bite of a tick catalysed what ended up being the most influential and creatively edifying period of his life. The bite was followed by a couple months of brain cooking fevers, violent vomiting, and blinding migraines. This was accompanied by inconclusive tests and confused doctors with no answer. Finally an answer came, and after a month more only the migraines remained. This introspective period altered his perception and intensified his desire to explore, learn and live.
Most of his twenties were spent wandering, living out of tents, hammocks, and a truck. Mehl isolated himself for weeks at a time - invariably and often longer - seeking natural areas - areas with silence, solitude and occasionally, the accompaniment of friends. He says, “Finding silence and isolation is ephemeral. Giving thanks for these fleeting moments, these periods of thought and observation, I learned something about the form and the balance of nature. I still try to understand it fully, but with each new understanding more questions arise. There is much to learn and I was then, and will continue to be, an easily distracted student.”

Mehl’s work often reflects what exists in a moment with biological significance, yet is geologically insignificant. "All traces of our existence will be erased with time. What will be biologically significant in the future can only be determined by the future."