Currently Showing at the New Mexico State University Museum (Las Cruces, New Mexico) through December 12, 2008

Seen by over 35,000 people during its initial showing at the Albuquerque Museum, "From Above: Images of a Storied Land" has returned to New Mexico.

The exhibition, created by the Center for Desert Archaeology in collaboration with the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, features a collection of large-format aerial photographs by Adriel Heisey that convey the beauty, mystery, and fragility of past human activity on the Southwestern landscape.

Heisey photographs ancient and modern landscapes from a unique vantage point... the open seat of his tiny, experimental Kolb TwinStar airplane. His photographs turn standard archaeology on its head. Typical archaeologists pierce the ground with excavations in pursuit of the past. Heisey, however, soars above the earth to capture the imprints ancient cultures have left on the landscape. The exhibit gives viewers an uncommon opportunity to explore the complicated, curious, and often breathtaking patterns that past people imposed on the land as they carried out their daily lives.

More information on archaeological places featured in the show.

Information on the photographer, Adriel Heisey

University Museum, New Mexico State University