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Composed of hundreds of ephemeral objects, from sugar cookies to vials of cheap perfume to devotional candles, popular santos , kitschy trinkets and cans of Goya beans, ‘Infinito Botanica’ is a vast still life.

For both Fiesta Sunday and All Saints Day, we use santos (painted wood panels of saints) and bultos (carved wooden statues of saints) on the altar.

Many Dominicans believe that the Catholic saints possess a kind of magical power, and express this belief in santos cults.

Hispanic creators of santos - carved and painted depictions of the Catholic saints - displayed their work at San Felipe Cathedral in Old Town.

Rather than wait for deliveries of artwork for churches and shrines, an enterprising lot of wood-carvers began carving and painting santos , or religious images, a tradition that continues in northern New Mexico.