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.
Patagonia destinations include the Cuernos del Paine to glaciares, guanacos and eagles roaming Rio Serrano steppes.
Swallow-tailed cameo
Dryocopus pileatus is native to North America and 2nd largest woodpecker on the continent.
Constricting blood vessels in their feet withstand long hours in cold water and use their wings for balance, lift, and jump for flight.
Here's to looking at you; glasses not withstanding.
A reliable waterholes on the Jornada del Muerto was the Point of Rocks.
30 million years ago volcanic ash formed monolithic blocks sculpted by wind,water and desert.
Las Posadas is rooted in Spanish and Mexican tradition re-enacting the Christmas Nativity.
Matachines pageant and dancing traditions trace back to Spain. This dance commemorated the Feast of the Nativity.
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