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 Harry Fonseca, The Discovery of Gold
California, 5.29.97, #11 On a last journey to Coloma before returning to Santa Fe, Fonseca set up his studio within sight of the marker denoting the very spot of gold discovery some 149 years earlier. Traces of red began to appear in his paintings. Evidence of the bloodshed and dramatic loss of life -- of his ancestors and so many others -- began to trickle out of the land, becoming rivers of blood that penetrate the gold, the landscape, and the mind. In one painting, red flows from the sky to cover a mountain whose form is reminiscent of Mt Fuji. In others, the flow of blood takes on a human shape, as though a bloody wraith is walking through a gold smog of destruction.
Harry Fonseca, The Discovery of Gold California,
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