The New Mexico State Capitol building in Santa Fe is a cylindrical structure known, appropriately enough, as "the Roundhouse." As part of a public art initiative in 1991, the Legislature created the Capitol Art Foundation to acquire masterworks by artists that represent the people, history and cultures of New Mexico. When you wander around the grounds you will come upon quite a few works including statues of native Pueblo peoples and various sculptures such as this 10-foot bronze Round called "Passage" by Dan Namingha, a well-known painter, sculptor and Santa Fe resident. In his words, “I try to condense images from my native cultural ceremonies and Tewa-Hopi heritage into simple forms, the way a poet will take traditional words and break them up and abstract them to create poetry.”

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