Utah-Mormon
The powers of a blessed claymore which fights evil and the
great shees of the North Sea vibrate that I am Clan Morrison. The focused life
force of stone ink and the breath of graphite declare that I am an artist. The
West and art share the same breath as seen in Utah. It is honored with five majestic national parks
and is said to formerly have had a lake that scientist named Bonneville. Utah
has dinosaur bones and five First Nation reservations too.. With the Olympics
that came, their ski resorts are great. Utah is called the “Bee hive state.”
This is supposedly from the book of Mormon. (Mormonism started in the Cleveland
area.)Utah is where Brigham Young brought the Mormons to after Joseph Smith was
shot. Mormons and the surrounding regions fell in to conflict creating the “Mormon
Wars.” Utah would not have become a state, but the Mormon Apostle abolished
polygamy which is still practices among the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints. (Thus Sister Wives) By the 1910’s it turned into a
Mormon Rhode Island. I am studying
Highland swordsmanship.
Utah has a unified mythology. The biggest thing on the
picture is a sea gull. According to legend the mountain at the end of the Trail
was said to look like a seagull pointing to Salt Lake City. Also A flock of
seagull miraculously ate the locus. The flower in front of the bird is a Sego
Lily which is the state flower. the Mormons of the 1880’s survived on the bulb
of this plant and were called "bulbeater." During the First World
War in was Utah’s poppy. Everything is
on Indian Rice Grass, the state grass. They survived on that too. In the back
of everything is the Mormon Tabernacle of Salt Lake City. Church historians
Elwin Robison and Randall Dixon said about it:
“However, whatever the Tabernacle designers lacked in formal
schooling, they made up for with sound, practical experience, careful
observation of the structures they had built and the driving vision of what
they wanted to create. The Tabernacle is a startlingly modern building for its
time. Not based on any style of formal precedent, it anticipates the
functionalism of early 20th-century architecture. It truly was entirely new,
and unprecedented throughout the world.”
It is 8” x 10,” drawn with
pencil and white charcoal and completed 2015.
The name of this piece is Right of Spring, is 12” x 18” and drawn with Sumi-e recently. Soyoto
(cherry blossom) is an important part of Japanese mythology as it is part of
both new life and death. The Japanese national weather predict when the trees
blossom. “Tidings of
spring” is what high right corner says. The bird is the Japanese White-eye. A
weird 1950’s has the same title. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work
email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.