by Marcia Soderman

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Iguacu Falls, The River is Red

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Iguacu Falls, Argentina is the widest series of waterfalls in the world and a stunningly beautiful place. You stand surrounded by prisms of colored light everywhere you look and are enveloped in its constant, thunderous roar. You are puny in the face of such a mighty place. But for a place so beautiful its history is marred by a bloody colonialist past when through the intrigue of the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies and the Catholic Church, mercenaries were hired to almost wipe out the indigenous Guarani people. The red in the painting is symbolic of the red-orange river basin, caused by an abundance of iron in the water, and the bloodshed of Iguacu's history.

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