Heralding the Emergence of Spring, El Dorado, 2022, photograph, 9 x 10 in. / 22.86 x 25.4 cm.

Heralding the Emergence of Spring, El Dorado, Kent Wood, 2022, photograph, 9 x 10 in. / 22.86 x 25.4 cm.

Conquistadors sought a legendary city built entirely of gold, El Dorado. Hand coated platinum prints of southwest Anasazi ruins overlaid with petroglyphs representing the ancestral inhabitants are then hand embellished with gold leaf to represent the fabled and lost golden city of El Dorado.