Persistence Gallery displays images sampling my 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 this 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 is my journey as well.
.Laguna-Hopi dancers performed the Buffalo Dance in ancient central Pueblo Bonito.
NM community petitioned and renamed back to Los Ojos.
For 40years small PieTown held a festival named for a bakery.
Harvesting pinon is a tradition and a cash crop both rewarding and rain dependent.
Inca Indians cultivated & adapted potatoes in Peru circa five to eight thousand B.C. in Andean highlands.
Casket bearers would rest, say prayers for the deceased, and place a cross .
Santuario de Chimayo is a National Historic Landmark.
Los Ultimos Y Bernardo serenaded vendors and patrons alike in an open field market.
Solstice evening in Chaco Canyon