Saturday, March 26, 2016

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.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Massachusetts-America

The echoes of the highland charge and the designs of the leather bound targe breath to the lone islands that I am Clan Morrison. The pen that hangs around my neck and the research that is applied to every work declares me an artist. One of the great art centers of the US is in Boston. Massachusetts is also known for the pilgrims and Puritans. After the first horrible winter, March 1607 Squanto greeted them with "Hello Englishmen." Then Massachusetts grabbed Plymouth and the Salem Witch trials, then Boston killed the pilgrim’s Indian friends. At least that is how the story goes. The state was over liberalized in “Community” and cried over for the Boston Marathon. I have worn a kilt. 


Massachusetts has possibly the oldest of truly American mythology. Behind everything on the Left is Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1636 and was named after Rev. John Harvard of Charlestown because the bequeathed his library to the school. Its shield was officially adopted in 1843 when President Josiah Quincy found the Overseer’s sketch from 1644 in 1836.behind everything on the other side is the Old State House which is on the site of the 1657 Town House which burned in 1711. A visors galley was added to Representatives Hall in 1766 making the first average observer legislative debate. Outside the balcony where the Declaration of Independence was first proclaimed is where the Boston Massacre took place. It was the Boston’s city hall from 1830 to 1841. Everything is on a tea crate from the Boston Tea party in Boston harbor. The battle club facing left is of a Wampanoag leader. These are the Indians of the Thanksgiving story. These are the other Praying Indians are the Wampanoag who were converted by the pilgrims. The rest died in King Phillip’s War or fled to Canada. The one facing left is a shillelagh for the Irish immigrants. Impaled in the crate is a whaling harpoon for the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The state was a great whaling port from 1672 to mid-20th century. The pendent on the necklaces on the shillelagh is for the Gloucester Fisherman’s Memorial. On the harbor side of the memorial it says “THEY THAT GO DOWNTOTHE SEA IN SHIPS 1623-1923.” It is to honor the tercentennial of the city and those who died at sea. The city was shown on the show Wicked Tuna. The skull is for the ax murder at Lizzie Borden House which is said to be haunted. On the bottom edge on the right side is cranberries. Cranberries weer first officially havested  by Native Americans in 1500’s. The first million barral state’s crop was 1953. Some of the states vines have produced for more than 150 years old. It is 8” x 10,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed recently.



   The name of this piece is Oak, is 9” x 12” and drawn with ink October 2013. This is from some one’s front yard in Indiana across the street from a corn field. This was from my first year as an artist the month my mom died.  If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Vermont- Green

The mourn of the tinker’s song and the smoke of torched breathe to the North Sea winds that I am Clan Morrison. The tao of meditation music and the scent of pine soot breathe that I am an artist.  As a Southerner and a Texan, I have a deep respect for independent regions and Vermont was a free country from its declaration of independence in 1777 until it joined the union in 1791 after sorting things out with New York. (It was the fourteenth state.) The young republic was the people who actually seized Fort Ticonderoga. Benedict Arnold was original the most loyal to the United States of the Green Mountain Boys. The name supposedly is from Samuel de Champlain trying to navigate the namesake lake yelled “Les verts monts!!” (Apparently, New Englanders cannot spell.) He also gave the name to the Green Mountain range. I was a balladeer in collage.  



Vermont has an interesting mycology. Behind everything is the Great Eddy Bridge. It was built in 1833 and is currently operating. The bracings were added in the 1970’s. Vermont has the highest concentration of covered bridges of any other state. Everything is on the porch of one of the famed “Hunting Lodges” in the state. These are mansions that where built 1800’s for fames “robber barons.” The log handed cup is a traditional maple syrup ladle. According to Algonquin legend, a chief hit a maple tree and his wife took the sap thinking it was water but when the meat was boiled in it was sweet so the named the sap “sinzibukwud,” sweet buds. Original the trees were taped to make sugar until tin cans were invented to keep the syrup. Sap collection was sped up in 1959 with plastic pipes. The ski pole next to it is for the skiing industry which was started by Norwegians to get threw snow closed roads.  The creation of ski lifts in the 1930’scaused the industry to blossom. The little pot on the bottom right is for Vermont pottery which started after the American Revolution. The bird on the handle is a hermit thrush (became state bird 1941) which was not given a song until it ate nearly all the insects. The flower against the ladle is the state flower red clover.  It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed 2014.

 The name of this piece is Église de Sante Louis, is 5.5” x 8.5” and drawn with pencil July 2013. I drew this picture during my summer school class in Blois, France. The cathedral was next to my bus stop.  I drew the whole time I was there. (My camera kept braking down.) I drew it the last week I was there. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Rhode Island-Baptist

The winds of Pictish brochs and the golden trail of Scathach’s lone ride protecting the Highlands sing to the winds that I am Clan Morrison. The hardness of a pallet and the of the work say I am an artist. As being raised in Texas, I was raised Baptist which was started in Rhode Island. (Ironically the state is mostly Portuguese Catholic.)  It is the smallest and one of the most dense region of the united states with the name Commonwealth of Providence Plantation and Rhode Island. Its name is from a Greek island given by the Italian navigator Giovanni de Verrazzano in 1524. Rhode Island was founded to allow for a place for “soul liberty” but was given the name “Rogue Island.” (Being the last of the 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution) My mother actually drove through the area but all that was remembered it rained that day. My father flew into Providence and remembers less of the “state.” It big draw is Brown University which is one of the Ivy League. My house in Indiana looked a lot like a broch.


Being the smallest “state,” Rhode Island has a big mythology. Behind everything in the middle is the dam for the Slater Mill Historic Site.  This was one of the original textile mills in the US by the originator Samuel Slater and where the "Rhode Island System" started being used till 1923. The Old Slater Mill Association was formed in 1921. It became a National Historic Landmark in 1966 and is currently a living history museum. Behind everything on the right, is the first baptist church in America founded in 1638 current building 1775) by Roger Williams who bought the Providence Plantation from Narragansett nation. On the far left is the famous Cliff Walk in Newport, RI. It stated being developed in the 1880’s and continues to be developed to this day. The cannon is for Fort Adams which was active from 1857 as a protector of the bay to 1945 the northeast command post. The stones it is on are the Gilbert Stuart Museum.  The museum depicts the original home of the painter of the Unfinished George Washington which is used on the dollar. The bracelet is for the jewelry factory which for the state is known. The weird head sticking out of the water is the cryptid Block Island Sea Monster. It is 8” x 10,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed recently.

 The name of this piece is Submerged Log at frozen Greenbriere, is 9” x 12” and drawn with ink February 2014. I drew this picture standing in a foot of snow on the edge of a large frozen artificial pond. The pond had gained a blue tint. The Greenbriere park was not exactly a park but a wooded area , bur when I ask various people in my street the name of the area the name Greenbrier came up. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.