North Carolina-Free Spirit

Highland Scottish blood declares me the proud Clan Morrison but with a Dutch mother who inspired me to be an artist in her support of my drawing and her death. Many artists like the autonomous nature of Southerners of which I am one of those artist. North Carolina seceded twice from the Union, the first time under President Jackson. I have a lot of friends from North Carolina. One’s mom was a seamstress received a large order only to find that it was for Klan robs, but they were the most polite customers. I myself rode through the state once in the snow through smoky mountain National Park. That was the year (and the storm) that closed down Atlanta with the blizzard. Being from the marsh and Piny Woods, the Smoky Mountains were a new thrill and the snow improved them.  I now live near the mountains.

The mythology of North Carolina connects the earliest times to the Modern Age. The Talking Feather with the seven points star shows the Cherokee who were the first native North Carolinian. (The seven pointed star is the crest of the Cherokee Nation of which there is a large reservation in North Carolina.)The Tri-cornered hat with the Fir branch (this marked the North Carolina militia during the revolution from England.) represents the number of battles from the American Revolution that were in North Carolina. Everything rests on the secession flag of that state  with which declared independence from the United State,  the same calendar day as the her revolt from England, May 20^th . (It should also be noted that the Southern Plantation System started in North Carolina.) The Tiger Shell is the state shell as the state has a large beach part of which is haunted by the “Flying Dutchman.” But it has always been a coastal region as the state fossil is the Shark’s Tooth seen just above the word “May.” The Tiger Lilly on the Tri-corn hat is the state flower. The Cardinal is the state bird. The fight wings below the brim of the hat are for the first flight by the Wright brothers happening in Kittyhawk. I drew this picture a little over a year ago.

The sadist tale of Native American sand Angles is the Gnadenhutten Massacre. The Moravian Native Americans who had previously been ex-pulsed out by the English but returned were burned alive in their church “Cumbiya” by the Pennsylvania militia during the American Revolution in Gnadenhutten, Ohio. The Monument says “Here triumphed in death ninety Christian Indians, March 8, 1782.” The slanted foreheads are accurate to a etching of a native American skeleton from the 1830’s. The two survivors were granted the first reservation when George Washington heard of the militia’s barbarity and making Ohio still having the only Praying Indian Nation reservation. I named this piece in their honor “Come by hear, my Lord” originally for a benefit action but did not sell and email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com if you want to buy it.

Louisiana- Marsh Sudiste

With the name Matthew Morrison and Dutch mother, it is obvious my ancestry is not very French. I am an artist and love the South and France.  Going to France was the turning point of my life because an artistic culture liked my art. I was brought up on the edge of the Bayou being taught that Cajuns were insane (learning Parisian French.) and Voodoo was made up. I now know that was racist discrimination. Ironically, I am from the” Bayou City” and have an uncle who lives in Louisiana. Then, I moved to the North choosing to study French and relived how beautiful was the culture and land I spurned. In French class I ask to do my research on the Bayou for my francophone. I preformed my presentation and wrote my report in Louisiana French and made a love Grigri pouch. All cultures are preserved in their music, but as Zachary Richard fights hard for the Cajun language; my teacher was overwhelmed with the amount of Zydeco in the presentation. When I went to study in France, the French preferred my art and my Louisiana French.

No one questions the mythological nature to the Great state of Louisiana. It does not counties but Catholic perishes. The flag is the flag of Acadiania, Cajun countries. Cajuns emigrated from Canada because the English kicked them out, but in Louisiana they were treated as slaves. The doll in the foreground is a Marie Laveau Voodoo Doll. She was known as the greatest Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. The religion of Voodoo originates from French West Africa and can by way of the slaves coming to the Americas under the persecution of the French government who banned the faith killing all the practitioners. The US freed the slaves by buying Louisiana allowing them to worship as they saw fit. (The 14 amendment did not free African Americans as much.) Voodoo dolls were started in Louisiana. The straw hat behind the alligator head represents the other half of the state called “the Prairie.” The Alligator head is a souvenir that is found like the animals all over the state. The wading boot is from the oil fields in Louisiana. The English have always sought to harm Cajuns seen in the “Grand Derangement” so BP is nothing new, but Exxon TM is good for the state.  I drew it about a year ago.

War has always a subject d’art. The object in the front is a Targe or Celtic Shield which is both an offensive and defensive weapon. One of the best stories of any battle or war is found in a “shield” because it receives all of the blows. The arrows form a St. Andrews Cross, The symbol of Scotland because all conflicts have a cause that someone justifies. There is a dirk knife on the left side. The dirk is a defense weapon and if it is in a shield then He fight a greater warrior as one of them was left handed. Toward the center of the shield, there is a fragment of a ax for all are part of war. Email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com if you want to buy it from me.

Arkansas

I am the artist Mathew Morrison main artist with Clan Morrison art. (So far, I am Clan Morrison Art.)Like most artist I love the South. I was actually born in the Piney Woods, a dense strip of Lope-lolly pine and Hickey forest which go from Missouri to Texas; however the state most known for the Piney woods is Arkansas. It happens to be fairly flat so any time it rains, it floods. There is a mountain range that Laura Ingles lived and raised Rose in the Ozarks. I personally lived in the Thicket and love it the best.

Everything in the picture is resting on the flag which is a red field with stares that Arkansas chose when it seceded making it one of the last to secede from the Union. It was a red field with stars. The mocking bird in the foreground is the state bird. The Bowie knife is because Jim Bowie came from Arkansas who was noted as being crooked and invented the knife. The rock underneath the bird’s tail is the state rock.  The state gem is Diamond (Arkansas is the only state have them native.) which is between Indian vase and the Mocking bird. The Fountain is the spring at Boiling Springs National Park which is on Arkansas state park quarter. Art is very important to Arkansas’s native Craftsmen draw people to the state and create a mythos of native wood working. This is represented with the easel. The Native American vase shows the wonderful interaction between Ozark people and Arkansas Native Americans. I drew the picture six months ago.

This is my drawing of crest of a barn on a back road in Indiana.  It was sunny that day as I drew it on that spot. Old barns are sadly part of Americana that is being lost. Too many farmers want to replace or renew the old barns. 

I left Purdue University to sell my art when my dear mother went to Glory and my name is Matthew Morrison thus Clan Morrison. Like many artist and most Europeans, I have an affinity for Southern culture.  The only time ever lived in a dorm was studying at a Christian college on the Florida /Georgia border and it was only for one semester. It was way before the group started.  They were very relaxed people ironically as Georgia started as a penal colonies supposedly similar to Siberia.. Pity I left Indiana to go there and had lost my Southernisms by then. I felt more annoyed by their friendliness so I would random things and it would impress them with some strange ability.   Like most artist I am a bit of a loner. There was a very strong honor culture which meant that the discipline board had little knowledge on what was going on most of the time especially for the party dorm. Many people from there lived in Georgia.

Georgia has some of the greatest mythos of the South. The Peach is iconic of a “Southern belle” from Georgia with the welcome sign quoting the Texan Willy Nelson’s song “I got Georgia on my Mind.” One of the greatest icons of Georgia is Coca-Cola. The inventor of it did not make much money on it and the recipe for the great national secretes. The flag it is on was the flag that Georgia chose when it seceded from the Union. The mountain is the highest point in Georgia put to get her with Stone Mountain paid for unofficially by the KKK; however, it was never completed with only Virginia represented. (Originally, all Confederate states and nations were to be represented with two of each group’s most famous Confederate leader.) The Stars and Bars on the Cannon was there state flag until the 60’s MLK in the capital Atlanta. The foal behind the cannon is from Cumberland Island National Seashore The one joke in the drawing is little flag behind the former state flag is the national flag of the republic of Georgia (south of Russia on the Black sea coast) because there was always humor in confusing the names. The Flower is the state flower Cherokee rose with George like most Southern states having a Cherokee reservation. The acorn rests as the stat tree is oak. I drew it about half a year ago.

Five Native American Nations fought proudly for the Confederate States of America. The Southern Government opened the majority of Native American people. A few historians think that the Lakota attack in Minnesota may have been encouraged by Richmond. The two most well known Nations to fight for the South in the Civil War were the Seminal and the Cherokee. Some believe that the Cherokee Chief John Ross seceded to defend slavery as opposed to Anglo Southern States seceding from Northern bank and their government.  He was capture dressed as a Southern gentleman leading his people in battle against the government that drove them to the”Trail of Tears.”   This drawing, gave to a Christian School action which the pastor of that Church, a CSA paraphernalia, bought; however, if anyone is interested in it email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com and I will try redraw it for you.