Lands End Labyrinth
Beach-stone labyrinth on a cliff above the Golden Gate, rebuilt by hand after vandals scatter it.
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This guide to the Lands End Labyrinth in San Francisco traces a beach-stone spiral above the Golden Gate, built in 2004 by artist Eduardo Aguilera in the pattern of the Chartres labyrinth, and repeatedly destroyed by vandals ever since. It follows Colleen Yerge, the quiet caretaker who spent years hauling the scattered stones back up from Mile Rock Beach by hand after each act of ruin. Look down toward the water in front of you, the source of every stone that has ever been carried up this cliff.
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