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Israel Francisco Haros is both a visual artist and performance artist. His work is an attempt to search for personal truths and personal histories inside of American cosmology. The American cosmology and symbolism that he is drawing from is one that involves both northern and southern America that was here before Columbus. The work, both written and that which is painted, is attempting to mark and remark historical points in the Americas and the world. The mark making attempts to speak to the undeniable presence of a native America that will continue to flourish for generations to come.The understanding which he is drawing from is not conceptual but fact and points to the importance of honoring and remembering ancestral ways of living as a means of maintaining healthy relations with all humans,the winged, all those that crawl on this Earth, all Life, the Water, the Sacred Fire, Tonanztin, Tonatiuh,the Sacred Cardinal Points,everything in between, above and below and at the center of self and all things in the Universe.
