And they even kept the bowling alley carpet that looks so good in the blacklight. Even the hallway to the bathroom is covered in interesting, weird, inspiring art. Here’s a tiny fantastical cake city, there an ice machine that leads to a hall of mirrors, around the corner is a tree house with stairs leading down to the arcade and sideways school bus. See why I was hesitant to explain it? And the thing is you can entirely ignore the storyline (of course I couldn’t, but you could) and just play in this cavernous, psychedelic jungle gym of whimsy and wonder. Each twist and turn exposing a new room filled with strange and beautiful things. This is the world you get to search, wander, climb, and crawl through. Think Alice in Wonderland and Poltergeist meet 2001: A Space Odyssey, starirng Doc Brown and the Royal Tenenbaums. Further complicating things, the youngest member of the family, Lex, has faded out of existence and is presumed lost in the fog space between realities.The family’s attempt to rescue Lex nearly collapsed space and time, and has created a labyrinth of pocket dimensions around the house filled with memories and mythos from the family members’ subconscious. They have attracted the attention of The Charter, a powerful intergalactic cabal trying to stamp out chaos in the universe and create perfect order. Long, sprawling, non-linear story short: a family has stumbled onto technology that allows them to create portals through the multiverse, and it hasn’t gone well. We read their mail, watched home movies, went through photo albums, read journals, found the combination to the safe so we could access a notebook on scientific experiments that granted a pet hamster immortality, and decoded a secret message that led to this website which explains most of the story through one character’s perspective. Through exploration you can piece together the lives of the family that lived here, and what happened to them. When you walk through the doors you find yourself standing in front of a house at night. Meow Wolf is an immersive dayglo journey into the collective unconscious and a soaring celebration of the chaotically creative human imagination. Meow Wolf is the collective fever dream of a hundred artists, working in many mediums and presumably on several drugs, who banded together as outsiders from the art establishment (much like the beloved impressionists) and let their freak flags fly. Meow Wolf is a sprawling interactive art space that rewards exploration and investigation. I think one reason we didn’t know much going in, (and the reason I’m stretching out the part before I have to explain the place,) is because Meow Wolf is really hard to describe. Kate surmised this place was mainstream enough to appeal to different kinds of people, and weird enough to inspire super fans who keep coming back. It was a diverse crowd spanning generations, and included a school bus of teens wearing Meow Wolf tees. We showed up ten minutes after opening, but still stood on line to get our tickets. The parking lot housed some cool big sculptures, a couple food trucks, and a ton of cars with license plates from seemingly every state. Martin of Game of Thrones fame and here there be dragons. Martin bought it to make this all possible. Well, we knew it was in an old bowling alley, and that George R. We walked in knowing that it was a large interactive art space, and not much else. These are the kind of things you overhear people saying inside Meow Wolf: House of Eternal Return. “Make sure you read the mail, and definitely open the fridge.” “This massive neon mastodon marimba thing is like the model from the kids’ room.” “Let’s go through the washing machine again, that was fun.” “Hey, cool! There’s a passage behind this bookshelf!”
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