Marie recently completed this painting, inspired by this photo from a 2011 burning of poached ivory. Th feature article, Ivory Worship, documents the religious carving of ivory that fuels the poaching of thousands of elephants each year. Marie elaborates on…
A Thank You from Marie Mason to All Who Wished Her Happy Birthday
Greetings Family and Comrades, Well-wishers, fellow activists, anarchists (and non-be/quantifiable), I want to say thank you for all of the amazing and sweet greetings, cards, letters, photos and artwork that people sent me in response to the event in January.…
Prison Radio Interviews Kelly Poe About Recent Marie Mason Art Show
The hosts of Prison Radio sat down and talked with Kelly Poe about the recent art show she hosted, highlighting her own photography and Marie Mason’s paintings. In the interview she talks about how she first became involved in the…
Lula With Fireflies
Marie Mason/Kelly Poe Chicago Art Opening
The opening and exhibit at Chicago’s Suburban Gallery on Sept. 23 of Marie and Kelly Poe’s art was a grand success on several levels. To see the development of Marie’s painting from rudimentary to fine acrylic work during her imprisonment…
Theocracy
Theocracy No disrespect to Detroit’s brilliant, Beleaguered, and recently drug-martyred poet – But Gil Scott-Heron was wrong, wrong, wrong. The revolution Has been televised And trivialized, Made almost antiseptic, it’s apocalyptic attempts Co-opted, contained and commoditized. Now showing, an exhibit…
Marie Mason Painting: Polar Bear
Shadows
Shadows Sometimes when the paper holds a ghost before the colors touch the page, and shadows rise to the surface of collective conscience, and apparition fast-appearing whole like Venus rising in the foam or, Athena’s agile form Sword-swinging a surprise…
A Tribute to Lonesome George
From Marie, In tribute to the passing of Lonesome George, the last Galapagos Tortoise, this week – I wrote a memorial/did a portrait. Goodbye Lonesome George Good-bye Lonesome George Born when the Titanic Sank beneath the icy waves, Witness to…
Marie Mason Painting: A Gender Triptych
From Marie, “So these three paintings go together as a triptych. It’s a short meditation on gender as biology or social construct. The first panel is “Female” with an ovary bursting an egg towards an animated fallopian tube. The…