Introduction
Mary Edna Fraser has been dyeing silk for 35 years in the ancient resist medium of batik. 'Batik' is a Javanese word for dyeing textiles, traditionally made by layering liquid hot wax with washes of color. The oldest know batiks have been traced back to Japan’s Nara Period (718 – 794 AD). Often photographing from her family's 1946 vintage Ercoupe, she draws from aerial imagery to give a bird's eye view of the terraqueous landscape. She is the first generation to have fast film, satellite imagery and fiber-reactive proceon dyes. Mary Edna's large-scale installations and smaller kimono silks have gained her recognition as a modern master.
