Disappearing World
"Disappearing World" 14 x 11" Archival Pigment Print
“On a recent road trip with a friend we stopped to photograph a few of the roadside attractions. For years I’ve wondered about this one in particular, on interstate 40 outside of Flagstaff. What happened to the souvenir shop with the faux tipis? Here it was, decrepit, shattered, sun bleached and vandalized but still a place people liked to visit (several stopped while we were there). The satellite dish was for me a poignant contrast to the tipis and it, along with the graffiti, told a story about the collision of centuries of time and culture. Once where Native Americans lived, now a roadside caricature of the millennium; the satellite stood behind a geodesic dome from the 70s, with graffiti of a Keith Haring-style dog beaming to a spacecraft over a moon reminiscent of the 1902 ‘Le Voyage dans la Lune’. In a few years it’ll all be gone and time will forget that this little place in the universe ever existed.”
Pilar Law is the founder of Edition ONE Gallery. She enjoys curating themed group exhibitions that bring together photographers from all over the world.
Serving the photographic industry for over 20 years, her career has spanned from managing photo archives to developing and marketing online digital photo technologies and book printing. Her professional affiliations include Vice-President of the Board of Directors for ASMP's (American Society of Media Photographers) Los Angeles chapter, Treasurer and Secretary of ASMP-KC Mid-America and Board Member of the Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography. In addition to curating photographic exhibitions for Globe Fine Art and JFD Gallery, she reviews work for CENTER’s Review Santa Fe and is a juror for Photo Lucida.