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.
The Spider Monkey's prehensile tail can support full weight and is an extra limb while swinging.
Guanaco is a camelid native of South America named from the Quechuan word.
Cormorant are fish-eaters catching prey through diving and propelling themselves underwater.
Damming of the Colorado River controlled river habitat allowed river beaver expansion. Beavers turn stick lodges into vegetated beaches.
Blue Heron is known for quickness and adaptive hunting techniques and largest North American heron.
Antigone Grus is a large long-necked, long-legged bird with a pointed bill. V flight formation can save energy in their migratory thermals.
Anhinga -called snakebird, devil bird, darter, and water turkey. It hunts by diving but has no waterproof feathers. It absorbs body heat to dry.
Anhingas webbed feet make them excellent swimmers. Anhingas hunt by spearing their prey.
Nycticorax nycticorax called the night heron is a stocky and
hunched but extends its neck while night hunting.