• The Golddigger • Painting

• Created in 2018 using multi-media techniques, “The Golddigger” is not an abstract about a woman who’s after the money of a rich man. Neither does it refer to the infamous James Bond movie character called “Goldfinger”. • My abstract portrayed a white New Yorker who succeeded in avoiding cholera while he walked west all the way to San Francisco, California during the so-called “Gold Rush” in 1849 after carpenter James W. Marshall found in 1848 a small golden nugget when he went to wash his diaper in the American River. The discovery spread like wildfire across America, and drove ambitious and greedy Americans, Mexicans and Europeans to trek in wagons for miles and months with their families mostly to look for the golden opportunity. • The original inhabitants of mostly 1800 Indians resisted against influx of the “49ers”, and with the order of the then American President, the U.S.Army defeated and killed most of the native Indians, and allowed the gold-seeking adventurers to settle and claim lands in many parts of California. • Valued at $1 trillion at the time, the gold embedded in the river, in the mountain rocks, and deep in the grounds attracted hundreds of thousands of poor people from also around the world to form a multi-culture enterprising society that grew to become the world’s 8th largest economy not too long ago. • To help transport its crops and manufactured goods across America, California hired thousands of Chinese to build the train railroads that made California a huge exporter for some time, and oftentimes the state with the best economic opportunity. • With a population now exceeding 22 million, California is now a place where people don’t want to live and work because of poor government, corruption, density, high taxes, poverty, poor housing, high cost of living, and many cities have become messy, untidy and filthy. Record numbers of businesses and homeowners continue to flee California as we speak. Sharing more than 40% of the population are Latinos, millions of them illegals. • As a major turning-point event in American History, the 1849 California Gold Rush ranks in significance with the 1861 American Civil War for being the episode that’s not only most studied and written about; but perhaps also painted about. • If you’re a young dreamer like the late Anna Nicole Smith, and are interested to know who among the Golddigers found the most gold so you could dig their gold, look for them on the Internet and pray that they aren’t dead yet. •

Painting:Ink on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:60 W x 42 H x 1.5 D in

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