American photographer Jim Dow has long been fascinated by the ingenuity and creative spirit found in the built environment. Between 1967 and 1977, his first decade as a young photographer, he drove along old U.S. highways on numerous cross-country road trips, focusing his large format camera on time-worn signage extracted.

This exhibition presents fifteen works made by artists in present-day Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia during Spanish colonial rule.

On special loan from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, the objects featured in this installation offer a glimpse into the hopes and fears of the people who worshiped with them hundreds of years ago.