New Mexico-Pueblo

The kelpie (Water horse) crawling on shore of a Hibernian Island and a little person vanishing in thin air envisage that I am Clan Morrison.  The ink stone ground to paste and the Chi of a bamboo brush show I am an artist. American West has always captivated artist and New Mexico has a unique artistic nature. Ironically, it is said that New Mexico bound domestic mail has accidentally ended up in the wrong country, and Texas, actually,  gain importance as a staging and transportation route to a from Santa Fe in Spanish times.  Eventually, the Spanish just arrested illegal trappers and took them to Santa Fe too trade as Mexico City was too far away. The native non-violent native the Spanish called “Pueblo” meaning people, but they were multiple nations.    Adieus Huxley epitomized one of the state’s first nations in his book. New Mexico is called the land of enchantment as is the Val Loire in France, but when I rode though it mostly seemed hot and dry.  It was only  I-10 corridor. There is a photo of a kelpie. (Water horse)

The mythos of New Mexico is special from other states. Everything is on the New Mexican flag. It became the official flag in 1925 designed by archeologist Dr. Mera. He chose the Zia to share its meaning of “perfect friendship among united cultures.” (From the New Mexico flag pledge)  This symbol is considered sacred having four directional rays which are symbolic of compass, direction, seasons, and obligations such as strength, pure spirit, clear mind, and desire to help. The big jar is Pueblo pottery. The crating of the clay for the pot is called “picking flowers” because of the difficulty of preparing the clay such as letting it dry before grinding it with sand and broken pottery and adding water. The pueblo pots are not thrown on a wheel but columns of clay spirals coils stacked pukis with the outside scraped to create a smooth surface and the firing is called “Judgment Day.” The doll next to the pot is a Hopi kachina doll which represents the spirits they believe inhabitant their houses from February to July each year. They are made out of cotton wood root and the mask is important to the persona such as whorls on the head showing gender. (Hopi women on their wedding day do their hair in the same manner.) The weird saucer behind everything is a crashed device in Roswell from the 1949. Some say it in extraterational , and a recent German documentary said it was a fail Nazi experiment. The one thing that is known is the government covered something up. It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed 2013.

This drawing I drew waiting to eat lunch at “Le Cutter” resenting Blois in the Val Loire, France. It is a out dour resterant in the maret place. The drawing is of the stairs up the wall next to it which the castle is on top. This was draw with pecils I had just bought at the largest independent bookstore in the city. (An American K-mart is bigger.)  If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.