Immersive Art Day at Meow Wolf Las Vegas

Las Vegas, and the plan was to spend the day inside Meow Wolf at Area15, working through the immersive art rooms until we lost the floor plan — which took about twenty minutes.

The rooms don't announce themselves. One door opened onto a blacklight desert, cacti on floating rocks under a painted rainbow, with a neon eye hanging mid-room that read LOCAL ARTISTS, LV on one side and NV on the other. From there a corridor of LED strips ran to an exit door, and past that a row of red lasers strung down from the ceiling and crossed each other in the air like a harp. At one point we had to squeeze past a whole column of magenta-dyed leaves hanging floor to ceiling, blocking most of the passage.

No idea what order the rooms were meant to go in, or whether there was one. We came out through a doorway grown over with fake flowers into the big open hall, where a full-size tree stands over the bar with every leaf lit from inside.