This place is amazing. Haunting, intriguing, thought-provoking. Without the artistic presence, most of it with a poignant socially conscious message, this would seem like just a set of abandoned and disused structures. We did not hear or see a single soul anywhere as we walked around the site. We did not venture indoors but restricted our experience to the exterior.
But the art connects brilliantly with this setting, shattered windows and vacant doorways included. This is EASILY worth pulling over as you go through the Gray Mountain area on Highway 89. One of the paintings thankfully identifies this site as part of The Painted Desert Project, which I knew nothing about before today. For the best experience, I recommend that you walk around this place and think about history, how people find their true home within this world of ours and the time, focus and passion that can go into this kind of art and its placement in this location.
Mad props to @Paul L. for posting here about this site. I found it very hard to locate much about this exact location when I research the Project. The area definitely looks the part of an abandoned motel, but I was not totally sure. read more