In the fall of 2000, I took a landscape studio and was introduced to the classical form of the labyrinth. Unlike modern maze puzzles, the labyrinth is a continuous route that leads you to the center and walking this wound up path has been used by monks as a form of meditation. It is an intriguing form, which is why it has survived through history.
Fast forward seventeen years later and I spent a good chunk of last autumn working on an RV park along the Colorado River out in Laughlin. The project was sited on a property that was previously slated to be condominiums with several structures already installed on site. Like that ill fated project, this one fell through and was shelved late in construction documents.
This past Friday, we took a day trip out to Laughlin. Unfortunately the casino strip is unremarkable, aside from the ability to buy a lotto ticket across the river.
However I was finally able to conduct a belated site visit (finally saying hello to an online friend in person). Plus we found a little grassroots land art feature, the Laughlin Labyrinths. So I finally had a chance to walk a few labyrinths in person with our daughter.
In both cases, it was good to take these places out of the minds eye and live them in the fullness of reality.