By Tim Binnall
A mysterious piece of artwork has been discovered in the desert outside of Las Vegas and the curious drawing is so enormous that it can actually be seen from space. According to a local media report, the peculiar design was seemingly first spotted last month by Dr. David Golan as he and his wife were walking their dogs in an area of wilderness at the edge of the city. When they reached a particularly high plateau, he noticed "this pattern in the rocks" which resembled "a face and a yin and yang sign." A subsequent excursion to the site revealed that the artwork is largely hidden to those on the ground. Golan explained, "all you can kind of tell is that there are rocks piled up.”
Lest he had any suspicions that his mind might be playing tricks on him, when Golan later looked at the location on Google Earth, the remarkable artwork was clearly visible. Amazingly, the area resident says that he has often walked his dogs in the mountainous location over the last five years but never spotted the drawing until last month and an online search for references to the mysterious piece turned up nothing. "Someone did some pretty miraculous artwork up on the top of the hill," he marveled, "and it's just sitting here." The presence of the piece was apparently also news to the Bureau of Land Management, which is responsible for overseeing that particular portion of the desert.
As of now, the creator of the artwork as well as the meaning behind the piece remains a mystery, though a look at previous Google Earth images indicates that it has been something of an epic and evolving work in progress that began sometime in 2017. Beyond the questions surrounding its origin and its designer is the matter of its future now that the drawing has been discovered as such land art requires special permits from the BLM. Since the piece consists solely of rocks with no artificial materials, Golan hopes that the artwork will be allowed to remain in place, though since the presence of the piece is now public knowledge, it has already begun to draw visitors and, one fears, there is always the chance that some 'critic' will wind up destroying it.