artwork

“I’ve been following the coverage of the elephant slaughter that is getting even more intense and destructive as so many countries in Africa collapse into civil war. Ivory is a slick commodity that can be quickly traded for guns, drugs,…

New Paintings by Marius

“FTM/B.O.P… or bust” “Myrtle, prison buy abilify yard cat”

Painting and Poetry – Trophallaxis

“We have fed you all for a thousand years, And you hail us still unfed…” these Stark words of the old Wobbly song Still time enough now, a hundred years on. But more so, for millennia more (now) The tiny,…

A message and painting from Marius commemorating World Oceans Day

“We’ve celebrated Earth Day every year since 1970. But this day committed to being mindful of the importance of the oceans has only been happening since 2008. With the recent oil spill in the Santa Barbara coast and with the…

Painting – “Wearing Orange, Feeling Blue, Thinking Green”

Marius included this note with his most recent painting from the S.H.U. “New ‘painting’ experiment, since losing my paints/brushes/paper. In the jail we used deodorant on magazines to get colors, not so easy to control how it goes on the…

Painting – No Country Called Home

Marius illustrates those fleeing violence in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East via the Mediterranean Sea where the number of deaths this year is thought to have already surpassed 1,500 victims. – Rising Toll on Migrants Leaves Europe in…

Painting — Starfish

Science magazine had a recent article about how sea stars, star-shaped echinoderms, along the Northwest coast of the US were melting from the acidification of the oceans. Climate change and the increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have greatly…