Kentucky-Border State

St. Andrew’s cross was born in Texas on me making me Clan Morrison and Independent, but my mother was a Dutch Yankee. I chose to be an Artist when all else failed and my mother died, but never finishing college. As I am an artist, I love the South, but I was raised by a Yankee. There was one state that declared neutrality. (Lincoln was born there but raised in Indiana. ) They, now, want to be thought of a Southerner because Yankees thinks they are weird. (The Cincinnati air port is across the river in Kentucky.) Kentucky is Celt and German, even speaking the tongues of the old country in places. Art lives in Kentucky both musical and physical. This is not to discredit Tejano, Zydeco or other music unique to a Southern State, but Blue Grass is different.  Music from the South beat any American Pop material. The purple Appalachian Mountains and Mammoth Cave make the state beautiful. When I road through it, It snowed and looked like a Christmas card but the roads were hazardous. I still miss Mom

Kentucky is very mythological even leaving out Mothman and Bigfoot. The Kentuky Derby is also left out as it lacks a mythos. Everything is on the flag is the Brecked Ridge Flag, one of the groups that volunteered to fight for the South.. Kentucky had two capitals during The War between the States, Union and Confederate. The flag has stars making a Christian Cross on a blue field with two red strips and one white stripe. The state flower is Golden rod. The Cherokee have mystical belief about Golden rod. The state insect is the Monarch butterfly.  The Golden rod crosses a hammer dulcimer. The fiddle is French but the Dulcimer is uniquely America. The music from Kentucky is very unique from Tennessee being mountain.. It forms a St. Andrew’s Cross, the symbol of Scotland, and there are a lot of Scot’s in Kentucky still speaking Gaelic. There is more myth of the Kentucky Shine then there is reality.  This is shown in both song which makes us some Bluegrass and show called Shine. Ironically, there is a rumor that Kentucky legally is dry and does not allow in state sales of alcohol. This is my favorite of all the state series and I drew it about a year ago..

 The name of piece is Born to Fish, Forced to Work named for the person who wanted to be in the pictures but had not catch anything. The medium is both ink and water color. It was drawn the week end after Easter of this year on Lake Hinckley Reservation which was designed to be a millionaire resort wit an artificial lake  but failed. At one time Cleveland was very wealthy.  Cleveland, Ohio, has a very interesting view of nature. It has created a “Emerald Necklace” around the city in Metro parks of places reserved for nature. Many of these are outside of Cleveland city limits. If you are interested in buying eater pieces email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com.