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.