Florida-Spanish Beach

The lone Highlander piper wale to the misty bannocks and the symbols on the standing stones read that I am Clan Morrison. The serenity of Japanese flute and the nature of artist anatomy chisel in the wind that I am an artist. I am a Southerner and for one semester I studied in Florida.(I is known for its beaches which I never got to see.) The Florida which I saw was not a Hawaii twin but large loblolly forest. It even has great cattle herds just like Texas. (In Houston a highway bypass was closed because of a long horn.)Many southern states have gator The history of the state is that Ponce De Leon discovered it but the Spanish only tried to colonize it because the Reformed wanted it, but the Americans got it in exchange for paying Spanish debt; the state seceded and was part of the Confederacy. The Florida that is well known only started in the 1920’s. The tourist Florida began in the 1950’s. The only first nation in Florida is the Seminole who are the descendents of Cree Nation bandits. The states one great immigrate population are from Cuba coming after the Communist revolution. My alarm clock is set to wake me up with bagpipe music

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Florida has a very special mythology. It is also skunk ape country but the ape is not included in the picture. Behind everything is Castillo de San Marcos. It completed in 1695 by the Spanish to defend Florida from pirates and Georgia. The walls are made out of "coquina" (little shell) so the stone compressed instead of cracked when hit by cannon. It served under four governments and never fell to a siege. It was declared a national monument in 1900. Everthing is on a bed from the Coral Castle. The castle was made by the Latvian Edward Leedskalnin in 1920.After being dumped by his sixteen year-old financé, he moved to Florida and created the castle by moving the stones around like balloons. The object with the ladies on it behind the plane is a band wagon in the circus museum in the Ringling. The founder of “The Greatest Show on Earth” created it and opened as a museum of both art and show artifacts in 1954. It was reopening in 2000 under the University of Florida. The F-14A Tomcat is for the National Naval Aviation Museum. The orange is for the orange crop which was first grown in Florida in 1579. The great freezes changed the dynamic of the orange growing. The paw is for the other cryptid, the Florida black panther which some think is a  jaguarondi. It is 8” x 10,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed recently.

 The name of this piece is Crow, is 12” x 18” and drawn with Sumi-e recently. Japanese crows are bigger then American crows. Many of the words for various birds have the word crow in them in kanji. In Shinto, crows intercede between the earth and the gods and are the gods warriors.  If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.