This rendering of a waterfall was made in Columbia during the period of a month's stay in the village of San Augustin.
      This wonderful town is near an archeological site of pre-Columbian tombs. At the ruins site is a path that circles into the forest and back. Positioned along the path are a fantastic collection of sculptural figures. They are designed with the same stylistic tendancies of other pre-Columbian sculpture, found from Mexico to Bolivia, but all of these figures are more or less life size. This is unique for pre-columbian figurative sculpture, which was generally accomplished in smaller scale.
      I have never seen information about this culture, or about the ruins site itself, written about in English, or alluded to in any book on the subject.
      Near San Augustine is a magnificent canyon, with waterfalls emptying into it. There are large petroglyphs on the rocks there.
ARTIST'S COMMENTARY (continued)

"Cascadas Near San Augustin"
June 27, 1988
egg tempera on hand made paper
7 x 10 inches
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