Connecticut- Revolutionary

The hazel staff of Saint Columba and the wolver’s fishing pole  smell in the Highland snow that I am Clan Morrison, the true Brieves of Lewis. The ancient life of chalk which brings light and smooths shading and the continual search for subjects swear that I am an artist. The one true connection Texas has to New England in Connecticut’s Colt six-gun. (Ironically, New England is not into gun right. Southerners have a view that Connecticut is the quintessential Yankee.) The name comes from the Pequot word for long river. As a colony it was three colonies merged colonies founded by Massachusetts Puritans with Rhode Island Ideas who named it the Saybrook colony. It received the scares of great battles in the American Revolution. The Federalist Party was lost because Connecticut and Massachusetts wanted to secede during the war of 1812. (How Demarcates survived the War of Northern Aggression I will never know.) Yule is in there as opposed to the “College State.” (As colleges are concerned, UConn Huskies rule the NCAA basketball. No I am not a huskies fan.) But, people think of the state as “New York’s bedroom.” I also sell walk staff in East Ohio.

    

Connecticut has a very interesting Mytheos which is mon head countryand it does have witches. Everything rest on the Connecticut flag which was based on the seal of Colonel George Fenwick which had the phrase “Qui Transtulit Sustinet.” (What is transplanted sustains) the oak leaves which are symbolic of faith and strength were added. It was adopted in 1895 but was changed in 1990. It was originally purposed by a Confederate widow. The coffee server is for the states silver-smithing. The clock is for all clocks in the US were on Connecticut time. This is because Eli Terry was able to invent the shelf clock. Using this technology pocket watches were mass destitute by Timex. The state was at one time the “Switzerland of America.” in the early 1800’s. The cigar in front of the clock is for the state’s tobacco industry with two special types of tobacco especially for cigars which started in 1640 with seeds from Virginia and only in recent years has waned. The tobacco is grown in the shade. The bird is the state bird, the American robin which summers in New England.  It is 8” x 10,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed 2014.

 

 The name of this piece is Long Life is 9” x 12” and drawn with Sumi-e on watercolor paper February 2016. Both the turtle and the crane are symbolic of long life in Japan. It is also said that if one fold one thousand cranes a wish is granted. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.