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.
Domes, hoodoos, outcrops, and multi-colored laminae strata all formed in Jurassic time and cross-bedded in magnificent contortions.
Peyto lake was named for an early trail guide and trapper. The glacially suspended rock give a bright turquoise color.
Caves of the Bloody Chiefs are a row of
formations eroded by Lake Superior.
Salto Grande flows from Rio Paine through Torres del Paine National Park
Thunder River flows from its North Rim source. It is the steepest river in the US and ironically a river flowing into a creek.
The Withlacoohee River originates in central Florida's Green Swamp.
Paving the Everglades National Park northern boundary on the Tamiani trail created frequent encounters with wildlife.
Mating season for Guanacos is November thru February. Gestation is eleven and a half months producing calfs called Chulengos.
The brown pelican is gregarious around humans and can drink salt water with ability to excrete through salt glands.