Adobe (from the Reflexiones del Corazon portfolio)

In New Mexico, traditional architecture is uniquely in tune with the environment through the  building material of adobe, dried mud brick, combining the natural elements of earth, water, and sun. Sustainable, efficient, and steeped in history, this method of using the earth itself creates a regional style of building that appears to rise naturally out of the earth.  Miguel Gandert’s print offers a series of reflections on adobe, showing both the labor involved in making the material and an appreciation of its cracked and textured surface.