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

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

A Southwestern bandanna design inspired by classic red paisley western bandana

textured work of art

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

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