Morgan Motes was born in Palatka, Florida and began sharing his art with the world (of Florida, mostly Gainesville) at a young age — most high school weekends were spent participating in art shows, art walks, setting up a booth outside of the record store, etc. and selling paintings for whatever locals thought they were worth. His artwork explores the human condition through the vehicle of landscape, ubiquitous themes include transience, memory and voyeurism. He began making music in 2015, releasing under the name We Will Get There Eventually. His music is reflective of his own experience — raw folk songs fused with elements of emo, indie-rock, and bedroom-pop. In 2018, he began also releasing music under the name Big Best Friend, an alt-country side-project. He obtained his associates degree in Studio Art, from Florida School of the Arts in 2017 and in 2021, graduated from The University Of North Florida with a BFA in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking, and a minor in Creative Writing. He is currently a practicing preparator at The Ringling Museum of Art. He still creates things and questions the sky daily.

Motes was fortunate to receive a full ride through Florida School of the Arts, through the Presidential scholarship. He has also received a 1,000 dollar scholarship, three times, from the Palatka Art League. In June 2019, he was awarded a 4,000 dollar scholarship from Radius Workshop to fund a study abroad trip to Croatia. In June 2020, Motes was awarded a grant by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville’s Fill the Void: Artist Relief Funding Campaign. In March 2022, Motes’s painting “Study For Emptiness 1” was selected to be exhibited in MOCA’s (Jacksonville) FIFTY: An Alumni Exhibition. Motes has shown his work in numerous solo and group shows throughout Florida since 2013.

His artwork has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, The Talon Review, and RadX Magazine. His poetry has appeared in The West Trade Review. His Music has appeared in Folio Weekly, Americana Highways, and online at wewillgetthereeventually.bandcamp.com and bigbestfriend.bandcamp.com, mostly releasing through the record label BLADE RECORDS, of Laredo, Texas. As of 2024, he has released 15 albums.