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.