Belonging: Los Alamos to Vietnam New Mexico Jewelry and the archaeology of the

and the archaeology of the twentieth century

and studies of the cooking methods of the modern descendants of the Incas

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

This comprehensive look at this new genre of art includes multiple photographs of the impressive works of each artist

In the 1850's

Belonging: Los Alamos to Vietnam New Mexico Jewelry and the archaeology of theMeridel 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