Persistence Gallery displays images sampling the 1990 book published by the Museum of New Mexico Press.
These photographs document Catholic faith heritage still enduring throughout centuries in the Southwest. Architecture, space, and light combine and create a visceral presence in these places of worship. Distinctive rituals and community traditions still passed on through mayordomos and generation to generation. Similarly -architecture, manifestations of faith, the continuity of ceremony, and a community vitality make for palpable imagery. And so this documentation explores active and abandoned shrines, churches, innumerable rutted roads, and thousands of encuentros of faith and witness. The Persistence of Memory became my journey as well.
Mercado rows of stalls and shops hawking everything from meats, vegetables, and cures.
Panamanian White-faced monkeys, Cebus capucinus,—recognized as the most intelligent & discriminating new-world monkeys.
Spanish moss is an epiphyte -a plant growing upon another plant.
Plants, invertebrates, or minerals are textile dyeing sources. Also berries, bark, leaves as well as bacterial sources like insects, fungus, lichens.
Panorama point is located in the remote part of Canyonlands National Park called the Maze District.
Grand Canyon and the North Rim is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Underlying saturated slide mass buried by sediments may explain the unique depositions
Indigenous peoples used the sunflower for over 8,000 years for food and medicines.
The highest and youngest formations are on the Kaibab Plateau.
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