@marnifraser.bsky.social
Essayist • Poet • Fine Artist • Photographer
Img 2025, “The Flutist”
Mixed medium • 24k gold.
22-in x 30-in (56cm x 76cm)
Untitled Complete Study,
Pencil on Pastel Paper
11” x 14” (29.9 x 35.6cm)
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04.09.2025 18:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excerpt: This planet holds a sacred significance. We have misjudged our relationship with it. By cultivating a deep respect for the Earth and its natural systems, we can gain insight into our own true selves. Only then may we find a path to survival. - m.c.f.
04.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
❦ Hide sorrow in a little quiet, like a bird in the hand. Endure solitude; when you release it, you lose neither joy nor peace.
M.C.F.
Solitude is not the absence of others, but the presence of one’s own unspoken dialogues. —m.c.f.
17.08.2025 20:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Soft-lit portrait of a woman with curly hair and red lipstick, neutral background, slight smile, shoulders visible.
I knew you when
you let me know -
Now its mechanics,
And a loneliness,
But thank you too -
Alone the voice
Returns to me.
m.c.f.
0723.2024
👁️🗨️ First light test ~
11.08.2025 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
➰ WIP: Gold leaf over petals. Dusting soon.
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🐦⬛ in the studio: glue → gold → then what?
11.08.2025 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today’s Quote:
O’ sweet dawn, spill your endless banner of gold across the trees and sea, and let us awaken to your fire because we are made to carry it in our soul. — c.a.
❦ My upcoming book—105 poems on love in all its forms—is manuscript assembled and soon headed for formatting, and then publication. From tenderness to ache, connection to solitude… almost ready to meet you. Title is secret (for now).
11.08.2025 16:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@haikupoems.bsky.social
Conversation Haiku
Our two tongues speaking,
woven voices intertwine—
a shared rhapsody.
countless others. The irony is staggering: lamenting the state of the world while refusing to acknowledge their hand in its making.
And then there are those who do act, propelled by a sense of urgency but often lacking the wisdom or strategy to create lasting solutions.
hashtags and diatribes alone.
Too often, the loudest voices belong to those who didn’t even exercise the most basic tool of democracy: the vote. Or worse, they cast their ballots without thought, without research, without considering that their choices shape not just their lives but the lives of
❦ Every piece begins with a pencil, a brush, and a pan of watercolor—humble tools, and infinite possibilities.
#ArtTools #CreativityInProgress
