Kristin Markham, artist

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ks1markham@gmail.com: Kula, Hawaii; Since moving to Hawaii my work has focused on native flora and fauna. I enjoy the natural world and have always loved the magic and majesty of our Big Blue Planet.

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5.06.2012

2012 Prints

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from Aldo Leopold

Man always kills the things he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

all art is quite useless

A work of art is useless as a flower is useless.
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
We gain a moment of joy by looking at it.
That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers.

Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure.

But the subject is a long one.

Truly yours, Oscar Wilde

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