Washington D.C-Capital City

The arrow hitting the Island Beast and Merlin’s Crag that house the Sith sing a ballad to the wind that I am Clan Morrison. The beauty of the research models and the zen of the nature sing that I am an artist.  The one Southern “state” is the Distric of Columbia (In 1860, Washington’s mayor seceded which is why the union army commandeered all the buildings. They did not gave a mayor for a hundred years. Currently they have no representation on their taxes which is why they say “No taxation without repisentation.) My brother went is DC for his senior trip and said that it has the worst drivers except around Federal buildings. It is said that the Washington has worse violence then Bagdad which is why Congress deposed the mayor until 2006 with the drop in crime. As also being the capital of the US and congress defining their government, there is some resentment among residents and officials. The region was settled by Anacostines until the Ulster came in the  late 1600’s. The District was establishing in 1788 and was desighned by Pierre L’Enfant. Slaverly was big in washing ton and Georgetown until the Civil war. Then, all the cities where unified as Washington under Grant.  I think I saw a sith.

Washington, DC has a really great mythology. A Snallygaster which is kind of like a pterodactyl flys over from time to time and the is a demon cat that hunts mice in the Smithsonian and White House, but neither made the picture. (I think that the president owns a cat but did not tell Americans.) Behind everything on the left is Washington Monument. It is two tone because of its completion by Grant. Behind everything on the right in the US Capital Building which is restored from the fire in 1812.   It was not completed until the end of the Civil War. Everything is on the Flag in the Lincoln Box in Ford Theater where he was shot in 1864 and is currently preserver as it was. The book with Shakespeare is for the Folger Shakespeare Library which contains a third of Will Shakespeare original works. The ruby slipper is for the Smithsonian. The rock is the Hope Diamond which is said to be cursed ever since it was taken from the head of an idol.  In was founded out of a strange bequest of a strange Englishman. It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and white chalk and completed recently.  

The name of this piece is Wheat is 8.5” x 11” and drawn with Sumi-e on watercolor paper recently. I always looked forward to wheat in Indiana.If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.  

Illinois- Chicago

The Cup of Healing of the little brown man and the spear Gea-Bolg of Setana blow into the waves that I am Clan Morrison. The Ink sketch of a calm lake and the Zen of the shakuhachi fluke play to the wind that I am an artist. I started my art “career” on the Illinois Indiana border and learn to drive in Illinois. It is said that Illinios was fast tracked to statehood because of the Illionios-Missippi Canal connected the East Coast to New Orlands as a Free State. Illinois is still very agrarian and centrally not very populated. It is largely defined its largest city Chicago which is also the largest inland port in the United States. ( I used to live in Chicagoland.) this is why Al Capone defines the state in spite of the fact that he spent more time in Indiana. But, corruption in Chicago is rampant even now. I study fairies like the little brown man now.

The mythology of Illinois is especially unique. It has a three lagged creators named the Enfield Horror which is not in the picture. Behind everything is the Chicago Water Tower which survived the Great Fire. The tower was  built 1869 to pump clean water to the Chicago as Lake Michigan water directly surrounding the city was to polluted. It inspired the outside design of White Castel Burger restaurants. Everything is on the Garden of the Gods Wilderness stone in Shawnee National Forest which is honored in the states National park quarter.  It was part of the Depression area CCC operation. The top hat is of course Lincoln’s top hat as Illinois is called “The Land of Lincoln.”  Licon moved to the state when he was twenty after living in Indiana and Kentucky. He is buried in the state. The bean (which is its nickname) is the Cloud Gate.  It was designed by an Indian and reflects Michigan Avenue. The windmill is the Fabyan Windmill. It was built in the mid-1800’s in Lombard, Illinois but was moved to Fabya Forest Preserve in 1914 and was restored by a Dutch windmill maker in 2005.  It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and white chalk and completed recently.

The name of this piece is Chanting Dragon is 8.5” x 11” and drawn with Sumi-e on watercolor paper February 2016. Dragon are close to gods in Asia and symbolizes fatherliness. The phrase in English is “the dragon chants through the withered tree,” a zen meditation. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.  

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.

Alaska-Native Expression

The sword of the fachans and the warning of the thistle declare I am Clan Morrison. The pure black of ebony and the search for frame swear that I am an artist. America’s greatest expression is Alaska which ironically was Russian who cannot express themselves and was successful making money with the Alaskan furs for the Russians. (The Russian American company was re-launched in the 1980’s) The tsar that sold Alaska to the US was Tzar Catherine the Great. (If Russians are reading this please explain why ya’ll sold it.) Alaska is the only state which has a Russian Orthodox Seminary.  The Russians brought bogsleging and the language to American from Alaska. The state shares the Y’upik people with Russia. Drhasbedany’a and the “Flower of Scotland” is Scotland’s “national anthem.”

Alaska has a very special and unique mythology. Saber wolves, tigers and Bigfoot ordain its crypto zoology but are not in the picture. The mountain beside everything is Suicide in Chugach State Park just outside of Anchorage. The bear is a Kodiak and is for Kodak Island and for the national preserve of that name which was started by FDR in 1941and for the bear itself that harasses most Alaskans. It ended up on the state quarter. Everything is on a totem pole which is for the Totem Heritage Center which was originally a pile of the poles which someone found in a desirted building and the nations they represents. It was started in 1976. The quiver is for the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository which was created after the Exxon Valdese oil spill. The snow goggles are for Inupiat Heritage Center which is primarily dedicated to whaling circumnavigation of the globe and Inupiat culture. It is 8” x 10,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed recently.

 The name of this piece is Maguin, is 9” x 12” and drawn with ink July 2013. The name is the back road in Indiana which it is drawn. I drew it when my mother was dying of cancer. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.

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.

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.

Puerto Rico-Tropical Keystone

The cry of the blacksmith’s daughter to the sea and the life of uisge-beatha sing to the lone islands that I am Clan Morrison. The Zen of an incomplete circle of black soot and the mixture of Chinese graphite and clay cry that I am an artist. Technically, Puerto Rico is not a state but neither is Virginia, but in 2012 with a non-binding referendum 54% of the population voted for statehood. My Puerto-Rican friend said that she did not what they wanted. It was Spain’s keystone of the Caribbean. British captured the island but retreated from it. The United States got the island as part of the end of the Spanish American War. Ironically the Island also has one of the largest Communist Party’s in the United States. (Its flag is the same design as the Communist Cuban Flag which is why the blue is darker because the federal government changed it in the 1950’s with the Cold War, but the government is letting them return to their own flag in recent times.) It used to be a “rum island” but the industry went overseas. There actually a uprising to gain independence in the 1930’s but it is becoming American. I like the song Pour Me a Glass As Well.

The island has a very special mythology. Chupacabras are native to Puerto Rico but not in the picture.  Behind everything is the Faro del Morro at El Castillo de San Felipe del Morro in San Juan in the San Juan National Historic Site overlooking San Juan Bay. Originally a circular tower completed 1540, it was added to until it reached its current it current size completed in 1787. (Except fort the bunker added during WWII) On the left side with a few things resting on it, the wood barrel machine is an 1850’s corn mill at the Hacienda Buena Vista in Barrio Magüeyes. The hacienda was one of the biggest on the island until the 1950’s and is now kept as it was in the 1850’s. On the trough of the mill is a Puerto Rican parrot from the El Yunque National Forest which was honored with a national park quarter and was found in 1876 by the Spanish. The head and the hut are for the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center. The Antique firetruck on the mill is for Parque de Bombas which is one of the most iconic buildings on the island. It is 8” x 10,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed recently.

The name of this piece is Fencepost, is 9” x 12” and drawn with ink October 2013. It was between two cornfields in Indiana were the stream divides the land the tree scared to form an eye as the fence ran out permitting a taste of nature I was worried because there was a loose dog in the area. This was from my first year as an artist the month my mom died. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.