The Place Where Your Heart Is

Public art celebrates community in Albuquerque’s International District

“You are not only from the place you are born, but from the place where your heart is.” Visitors to Mesa Verde Park can now explore three newly-dedicated welcome beacons emblazoned with quotes by community members. Photo by Karie Luidens

Take a stroll through Mesa Verde Park, and you may hear the delicate clinking of a wind chime — or is that a dozen wind chimes at once?

It’s actually the wings of metal butterflies, rustling beneath a steel shade structure at the corner of Grand Avenue and Tennessee…