In Spring, snow melt from the mountains fill the Rio Grande river and course into the irrigation woven through the oldest neighborhoods in the Albuquerque Valley. The Mayordomos, traditional caretakers of the community water, begin their seasonal tasks, guiding the path of water as they have for four hundred years.

2 1/2” at its widest and 5" long, wood frame is 2" in diameter and 1/2" thick, 24" leather cord with copper sliding tube and oxidized copper ends

OROPOPO is a husband and wife duo who make jewelry, bags and objects in their Albuquerque studio drawing from the iconography of the American Southwest.

Karole's professional background is in architecture and structural engineering. The Oropopo name is from her birthplace on the coast of Venezuela. Grady is a native of New Mexico, a writer, and literary editor; he has specialized in desert literature and its aesthetics. Together, they refine a narrative that associates site and culture with contemporary technology.