The fountain inside the lush courtyard at the Mission San Antonio du Padua reflects the same blue sky that burns the chaparral outside its walls and dries the leathery countryside of the army base beyond its gates.  Here Nature's continuity and contrast overlap an historical legacy.
In exploring this particular American place, Schuster Gindin delves into the past and contemporary events imbedded in its geography. Her photographs make use of the familiar technicolor palette of the American west, which was often softened with an overlay of romanticism, to reveal those consistent forces that continue to play out on this site.