After moving to Santa Fe, Bacigalupa and Ellen created ceramic jewelry, ceramic kitchen ware, and tiles, and traveled around New Mexico to sell their wares in various arts and crafts venues, as well as offering their pieces in their Canyon Road studio. Bacigalupa also painted prodigiously, often producing dark and somber images that reflected his wartime experiences. Over time, Bacigalupa focused his work on liturgical themes. He produced several wall-size mosaics for churches, began sculpting bronzes, and produced a series of tile depictions of 50 patron saints that were the best-selling item in his gallery and the subjects of a book and greeting cards produced by Sunstone Press. During the 1970s, Bacigalupa produced multimedia slide and music shows for Liturgy in Santa Fe, a liturgical program developed by Father Blase Schauer that sought to enrich the Catholic mass with sacred art and music. Bacigalupa set slides of sacred art to music to create visual meditations that he referred to as “contemporary stained-glass windows." Bacigalupa collaborated with the Nambé foundry to produce many of his bronze sculptures. He sold smaller figures in his gallery, but he also was commissioned to produce larger bronzes for churches and other public venues. Perhaps his best-known work is his award-winning sulpture, San Francisco de Asis, depicting St.
Francis of Assisi with prairie dog, which sits outside City Hall in Santa Fe, NM. Another publicly displayed bronze is his statue of Santa Maria del Lauro, which was created as a tribute to his mother and his maternal ancestors from Meta di Sorrento. The statue now sits in a small piazza in front of the
Basilica of Santa Maria del Lauro in Meta di Sorrento, Italy. Bacigalupa co-founded the sister city relationship between Santa Fe and Sorrento, which was established in 1995. == Writing ==