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.
Mummy Cave Canyon de Chelly
An outer jackal wall has protected this ruin for 8 centuries.
The Battle of Glorieta Pass in 1862 yielded a mass grave excavated and 30 Confederates reinterred.
San Jose de los Jemez. historical site preserves the 16th century mission ruins of Giusewa Pueblo.
A fresco mural features local town personalities painted by Frederico Vigil.
The Great Smoky Mountains encompass an ancient mountain range, a diversity of plant, animal, and mountain life.
The final 22 meter rappel of Neon Canyon descends into the plunge-pool of the Golden Cathedral.
From the Maze overlook the Chocolate Drops formed pinnacles and columns ofOrgan Shale rising 200 feet above Horse Canyon.
The Dive of the Buckskin carves a 12mile descent into the Paria River.
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