Check out our latest post on Delete Apathy, a venue for creative people to change the political climate of environmental and social policy. We hope to form a pattern for activism in your backyard. Delete Apathy is our signature for various events and includes choreographed dances, musical compositions, and other fine arts, planned for major universities and institutions.

Architect Glenn Keyes and his wife Cyndy commissioned a diptych batik of kimono silk for the home.  Glenn designed the lovely space. The batik was requested to be rendered in blues, greys, tans, greens, some yellow, red, purple, and copper with no pinks or oranges to accommodate the space. I took lots of photographs of their natural surroundings and was able to perceive the way this landscape would look as if from the air.  The photographs led me in both color way and design. I had full freedom to create beautiful art as the clients trusted me. We were both totally happy with the installation.  I waxed out a moon behind a dense rainfall, inspired by the batik “Rainy Night” that the Keyes saw hanging in my studio.

Rainy Night                                      Whispering Marsh

Yukon Delta, 44" x 44", batik on silk

John Pavlus wrote a beautiful article titled Not Just For Dorm Rooms: Batik Hangings Show Eco Catastrophes about my batiks in Global Climate Change: A Primer for Fast Co. Design, New York. It features a video that shows all the batiks in the exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Global Climate Change: A Primer has gotten an abundance of recent media exposure, including:
“Duke professor Orrin Pilkey takes on the deniers in Global Climate Change: A Primer”, Independent Weekly, Durham, NC, by Gerry Canavan
“The art of climate change”, CNET News, by Leslie Katz
“Authors present climate change argument”, Salisbury Post, NC, by Deirdre Parker Smith
“Expanding Oceans: Batiks of Mary Edna Fraser”, Deep Blue Home, by Julia Whitty
“Rising Oceans, a Story in Batik”, Mother Jones, San Francisco, by Julia Whitty

Installation of "Our Expanding Oceans" at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh

Mary Edna and John Sperry observe "Global Perception"

My dear brother Burke brought the family Ercoupe down to Charleston.  On Friday, we flew from Johns Island Airport to Amelia Island (GA) to shoot for a commission.  I took over 1,000 photographs on this flight.  The trip was so exciting and I shot every barrier island on the way.  What made it special was that when I began my career with © Island From the Sky, this was the exact same path we flew in the 70′s.  Now I’m using digital and Burke and I are a well-oiled team.  Chase Cribb, my intern from the Art Institute of Charleston, got a chance to fly too and took these beautiful photographs of me and Burke with the Ercoupe and the view of my home on James Island Creek.