Grand Opening

March, 2017 / Grand Canyon National Park, AZ

Banner, flag, roses, table, table cloth, sheet cake, napkins, key chains; accordion fold book

For the 101st anniversary of the National Park Service, Kim Beck threw a Grand Opening party for the Grand Canyon. Beck offered park visitors cake, keychains and roses to celebrate one of the world’s grandest openings. This project was a meditation on speedy, commercial time and long geological time, even while being an unapologetic tongue-in-cheek pun.

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