Art
“Netting Vaquitas” by Marius Mason
“MEXICO: An effort to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise is being helped by banning the use of gill nets in all waters where it is found. The vaquita (‘little cow’ in Spanish) lives only in the northern part of the Gulf of California, and only about 60 remain. Gill nets are used by fishermen seeking […]
Free Oscar Lopez Rivera painting by Marius Mason
Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera has served almost 35 years in prison, convicted of seditious conspiracy for his commitment to the independence of Puerto Rico, though he was not accused or convicted of causing harm or taking a life. Serving a sentence of 70 years, he is the longest held political prisoner in […]
Vaquita by Marius Mason
“The vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus) is considered by many to be the rarest and most-endangered species of marine mammal in the world. in May 2016, the population size of the vaquita is considered to be 60, based on the results of a 2015 vessel survey and acoustic study. It is the smallest of only seven […]
“For Naelyn Pike (San Carlos Apache) standing with Standing Rock” by Marius
“This painting is another in a short series of portraits of resistance activists at the Standing Rock reservation to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Construction on part of it had been temporarily halted, but the fight is far from over. So many people have come together to defend the tribe’s land and water rights- and to […]
Cece McDonald portrait by Marius
New portrait by Marius of Cece McDonald: Writer, social activist, trans heroine. This painting will be auctioned off at a spring 2017 fundraiser for The Campaign to Restore Meaningful Commutation, a Pittsburgh based group that is pursuing criminal justice reforms for people serving Life Sentences, hosted by Let’s Get Free: Women and Trans Prisoner Defense […]
New Painting: Peter Francis of the Sioux People
I wanted to celebrate with all the courageous and determined indigenous folks who are organizing the Red Warrior Camp- that they’d won a temporary injunction to the pipeline is significant, although the fight is far from over. One of msy heroes Winona La Duke has pointed to the struggle in Dakota as representing “the […]
2017 Certain Days Calendar available now
2017 Certain Days Calendar: Freedom for Political Prisoners. Featuring a painting by Marius of the Victory Garden Project! $12.00
Sex and Revolution
as I move my hands my lips across your supple body blending everything becomes bewildered unpretended in these moments of ecstatic rhythm reggae sweat your breath so still lingering upon my lips your body mine the last of the wine spilled between us in a kiss an offering not offered to some other god but […]
Pattern
What lies within, still ties without One flowing through one From one into another A filament of Spirit Spun spider fine And finite Just enough to touch us all. Tying tiny threads of possibility Tangling in the warp and woof of being Of beings that combined begin to be A Pattern My blood a river […]
Untitled
An evening like this: summer sunset cricket song, peachy sky reaching up the vaulted ceiling, cathedral clouds clouds shaped like mountains along the Yangtze River improbable, fairy-tale bubble domes, drifting closer stilling to stalagmites all along the stretched horizon quickly darkening to throw this garden into bas-relief The air no cooler than my blood, and […]