Belonging: Los Alamos to Vietnam New Mexico Jewelry and community traditions that reaffirm

and community traditions that reaffirm a deep cultural and spiritual relationship with the land year after year

it examines pieces produced by New Mexican artists who developed a unique hybrid style with Spanish colonists

and the archaeology of the twentieth century

In the 1850's

dry paint powders

Belonging: Los Alamos to Vietnam New Mexico Jewelry and community traditions that reaffirmMeridel Rubenstein mixes mediums and metaphors to make art about our tenuous connection to place. Originally trained as a photographer, she combines disparate materials such as earthy palladium prints with cold steel mounts, transparent photographic imagery sandblasted onto glass, video imagery projected onto cast glass, and digital still imagery on floating vellum and hand coated tree bark papers. A sense of fragility, transparency, and passage in