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The American art group “The Most Famous Artist” admitted on their Instagram account that they are behind the creation and installation of the mysterious monolith in the Utah desert. “If by ‘you’ you mean us, then yes,” the group replied in a comment below one of the posts on whether they were the authors of the obelisk.
“The Most Famous Artist” also posted photos showing men working on the “alien” object. “Are you saying they weren’t aliens?” The art group wrote in a post.
On their website, the artists note that they can sell the “object” that appeared in Utah for a modest sum of $ 45,000. Delivery can take between 4 and 6 weeks.
The Utah monolith was first seen Nov. 18 by government officials in helicopters helping wildlife biologists count sheep from the air. The glowing triangular pillar, which stood about 3.5 meters from the red rocks in southern Utah and was apparently made of stainless steel, quickly attracted hundreds of curious onlookers and its fame spread around the world. Many have noted the site’s resemblance to the strange alien monoliths that made great strides in human progress in Kubrick’s classic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Others accepted its appearance as a milestone in the turbulent year that the world was engulfed by the COVID-19 pandemic and optimistically speculated that it could serve entirely different functions. “This is a button to remove 2020. Can anyone quickly press it?” One Instagram user joked. Some observers have noted the object’s resemblance to the avant-garde art of John McCracken, an American artist who lived for a time in nearby New Mexico and died in 2011.
At the end of November, the monolith disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared. Days later, tour guide Silvan Christensen admitted that he and his friends participated in the removal of the monolith.
The reason? The desert is not prepared for the invasion of tourists who want to see the unusual structure with their own eyes. “People were coming in cars, buses, vans, helicopters, planes, trains, motorcycles, and e-bikes,” he said. And there isn’t even parking. And there are no toilets. ”According to Christensen, onlookers polluted and trampled the surrounding land. To protect the desert from further damage, he and his friends decided to remove the structure.
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