Marni C.M. Fraser

2012-02-24T23:03:00.000-08:00

2012-01-28T14:20:00.000-08:00

Open Season
12" X 16"
Watercolor & Pencil on Board
Model: Kristamas

2012-01-16T21:14:00.001-08:00

Blind Rose Willow

2011-06-16T17:43:00.000-07:00

Blind Rose Willow

2011

Watercolor, Gauche, and Ink on watercolor paper

13"X16"

Model: Kristamas Klousch

Update (Finally!)

2011-05-09T14:26:00.000-07:00

Please bear with me while the blog is being updated and revamped. Look for new work from yours truly, along with a collaboration between Kristamas Klousch and I. There are new writings and illustrations in the works. For those who have been following, thank you so much for your patience and encouragements ~

Target 2009

2011-04-09T18:39:00.005-07:00

Target 2009, a photo by Marni C.M. Fraser on Flickr.

Into The Blue II

2011-04-09T18:39:00.003-07:00

Into The Blue II, a photo by Marni C.M. Fraser on Flickr.

Into The Blue III

2011-04-09T18:39:00.001-07:00

Into The Blue III, a photo by Marni C.M. Fraser on Flickr.

West of Eden 2009

2011-04-09T18:37:00.001-07:00

West of Eden 2009, a photo by Marni C.M. Fraser on Flickr.

The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

This sounds simple: do we not already sing our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Yes, but just what and whom do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we are sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly not the waters, which we assume have no function except to turn turbines, float barges, and carry off sewage. Certainly not the plants, of which we exterminate whole communities without batting an eye. Certainly not the animals, of which we have already extirpated many of the largest and most beautiful species. A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these 'resources,' but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a natural state.

- Aldo Leopold

Tentacle Soup

2011-04-09T14:27:00.000-07:00

Tentacle Soup, a photo by Marni C.M. Fraser on Flickr.

Pencil

2009-11-23T09:34:00.000-08:00

Butterfly Effect - Pencil on paper

Butterfly Effect

If a butterfly flapping its wings in Beijing
could cause a hurricane off the coast of Florida,
so could a deck of cards shuffled at a picnic.
So could the clapping hands of a father
watching his son rounding the bases,
the wind sculpting his baggy pants.
So could a woman reading a book of poems,
a tiny current from a turned page
slipping out the open window, nudging
a passing breeze: an insignificant event
that could snowball months later into a monsoon
at a coastal village halfway around the world.
Palm trees bowing on the shore.
Grass huts disintegrating like blown dandelions.

Hard to believe, but when I rewind my life,
starting from a point when my heart
was destroyed by a hurricane of grief,
I see the dominoes rising, how that storm
was just a gale weeks earlier, a gust
days before that. Finally I see where it all began.
I say hello to a woman sitting alone
at the bar, a tattoo butterfly perched
on her ankle, ready to reek havoc.

- David Hernandez

Watercolor

2009-11-23T09:28:00.000-08:00

Into The Blue
9" x 12 1/2"

Pencil

2009-11-23T09:23:00.000-08:00