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Michael Smith, Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: Entrance<\/i>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/2″ x 32 1\/2″<\/p><\/div>\n

Head to St. Augustine, Florida, north of the Mission Nombre de Dios and south of the Vilano Bridge, and you\u2019ll find it, as advertised\u2014the Fountain of Youth. It\u2019s open to the public from nine to six daily. Children\u2019s admission is cheaper than senior citizens\u2019, which seems cruel\u2014what need have the young for more youth? T. D. Allman sets the scene in his illuminating history, Finding Florida<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll know you\u2019ve almost reached your destination when you find yourself peering up at an ancient-looking arch. Across the top you\u2019ll see displayed, in Ye Olde English\u2013type lettering, an inscription. It reads: FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH<\/small>. The lettering is meant to evoke long-vanished times of chivalry and derring-do, but one detail marks it as indubitably Floridian: the sign is made of neon tubing. In the gathering subtropic twilight, the FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH<\/small> sign glows and sputters like the VACANCY<\/small> sign on a state highway motel. According to press releases provided by the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park, which is what this venerable tourist attraction currently calls itself, this is the very spot where \u201cPonce de Le\u00f3n landed in St. Augustine in 1513 searching for a Fountain of Youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is one minor hiccup, though. \u201cJuan Ponce de Le\u00f3n never visited and never could have visited St. Augustine: St. Augustine was not founded until forty-one years after his death, in 1565.\u201d <\/p>\n

As Allman has it, the park\u2019s founder, Walter B. Fraser, knew that tourists \u201cwould pay by the millions to visit his fetid property \u2026 if he could convince them that this was the very sport where Ponce de Le\u00f3n had first discovered Florida, then drunk from the Fountain of Youth.\u201d And thus what purported to be a historical site came to presage the Disneyfication of Florida: \u201cVisitors are told they\u2019re getting a view of America\u2019s origins; they actually are observing what developed into a harbinger of its future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artist Michael Smith probes these ironies in a new exhibition at Greene Naftali Gallery, called, as you might expect, \u201cExcuse me!?! \u2026 I\u2019m looking for the \u2018Fountain of Y<\/a>outh.\u2019<\/a> \u201d (Those tone quotes are essential.) And indeed, he\u2019s looking hard. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an inspired photo-essay that finds Smith roving the Archaeological Park and sampling its oddities, which include bottled youth-giving water, commemorative mugs, signs for overflow parking and a cannon-firing demonstration, and an ominous disclaimer that NOT EVERY VOYAGE TO THE NEW WORLD WAS SUCCESSFUL<\/small>\u2014all of it achingly ersatz.<\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s work is animated by his acute, wry sense of tourism and mass culture, especially as they\u2019ve metastasized under late capitalism. His photos reclaim the ridiculous, turning one form of spectacle into another. In this series, he poses as one of his avatars, Mike, \u201cthe quintessential Everyman who\u00a0continually falls victim to trends outside his grasp,\u201d and who has served as a Smith alter ego for decades. Not all who wander are lost, it\u2019s said. But Mike is lost: his expression is variously pensive, bemused, flummoxed, and awestruck. Another series in Smith\u2019s exhibition has photos of Mike wandering through one of many iterations of KidZania, a global chain of \u201cmini-cities\u201d where, as the\u00a0Guardian <\/em>puts it, \u201cchildren are in charge<\/a>.\u201d He is lost there, too.<\/p>\n

You could write all this off as mocking and mean-spirited\u2014but it\u2019s no more so than the profiteering revisionism that props up the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. As Allman reminds us, the park\u2019s dim retelling of Florida history has become a kind of hypnosis: \u201cWhen I asked one of the guides if every visitor believed Ponce de Le\u00f3n had discovered the Fountain of Youth, he answered: \u2018Ninety-five out of a hundred do. The other five tell us Christopher Columbus discovered St. Augustine.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

As for the Fountain itself: it\u2019s connected to St. Augustine\u2019s municipal water works. Don\u2019t tell Mike.<\/p>\n

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Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: The Source<\/i>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/2″ x 32 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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Fountain of Youth State Park<\/i>, Journey No. 1: Map<\/em>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/2″ x 32 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: Cannons<\/i>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/2″ x 32 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: Water<\/i>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/4″ x 33 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: Sundial<\/i>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/2″ x 32 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: I Bear Gifts<\/i>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/2″ x 32 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: Contemplation of the Future<\/i>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/4″ x 33 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: Native American<\/i>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/2″ x 32 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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Fountain of Youth State Park, Journey No. 1: Shipwreck<\/i>, 2012, C-print, 22 1\/2″ x 32 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me!?! \u2026 I\u2019m looking for the \u2018Fountain of Youth<\/a>\u2019\u201d is at Greene Naftali Gallery through August 14. All images used with permission of the gallery. Photos by Michael Kirby Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dan Piepenbring is the web editor of <\/em>The Paris Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Head to St. Augustine, Florida, north of the Mission Nombre de Dios and south of the Vilano Bridge, and you\u2019ll find it, as advertised\u2014the Fountain of Youth. It\u2019s open to the public from nine to six daily. Children\u2019s admission is cheaper than senior citizens\u2019, which seems cruel\u2014what need have the young for more youth? T. 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