Beauty Underfoot

In meticulously rendered colored pencil drawings, David Morrison isolates small pieces of the natural world against fields of pristine white space, confronting viewers with the stunning intricacy and beauty of these objects. Morrison's subjects include tree branches and bird nests, many of which he finds near his home in Indiana. "My intention is to show the beauty of a simple flowering branch or fallen residues from trees for the viewer to reexamine the realities of nature," he explains in an artist's statement