Natalie Slater’s “The Mother Road Revisited” photography project, where she melds old images of Route 66 with modern-day ones, opens Friday at Living Arts of Tulsa.
Living Arts is at 307 E. Brady St. (map) in Tulsa’s Brady District. The opening reception that day runs from 6 to 9 p.m. The Dilly Deli restaurant a few blocks away also will host an after-party that night from 9 p.m. to midnight.
The final day of Slater’s exhibition is April 25.
More about her project:
The Mother Road Revisited consists of about 100 photographs taken in the 1950s which I have paired with photographs I shot along the modern day Route 66, many taken as I traveled the route in my revamped 1964 Shasta. The biggest hurdle I have encountered is finding the exact location where each historic photograph was taken and setting up my own shot from the same vantage point. I then study the differences between the old photograph and my view before I combine the two pictures into a single image that shows both the new parts and vintage aspects of the scene. The resulting collage dramatizes the transformations that have shaped the Route over the years: once one-way streets now show two-way traffic, and swimming pools brimming with guests have given way to abandoned lots. This project is an effort to show what America has done to its once booming American symbol, the “Mother Road.”
Samples of Slater’s Route 66 artwork can be seen here.
This video shows Slater’s project quite well:
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UPDATE 4/5/2013: This report by KOTV in Tulsa shows how the exhibit will be interactive:
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