An Indo-European base root for culture is to revolve and to dwell. Images represented showcase persons, places, events, and visual symbols. It’s the doing, repeating, preserving, and infusing beliefs. A significance is assigned and embodied. Traditions assign meaning and create touchstones. Participation creates culture. Culture invokes remembrance
Exploring indigenous, southwestern, and differing heritages drive me. I wander ancient lands, habitats, and communal ceremonies. Remembrance is culture.
Fiestas de Santa Fe begins with mass and procession.
New Mexico state law outlaws the desecration of shrines and memorials.
Nuevo Mexico Profundo provides cultural expertise in technique and preservation.
Mezquita's maksura is a unique flourish of arches creating a dome segueing mosaics fronting the mihrab.
A Roman fortress, Real Alcazar was a construct by the Caliph of Cordoba. Baths of Maria of Padilla are cisterns supplying drinking water.
Real Alcazar Archway
Archaeology evidences castrena culture to the Celtic inhabitants of Iberia.
Mezquita-Catedral transept
Enveloping the simplicity and complexity of a spiral envelope, Richard Serra's Matter of Time is a journey.