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.