Utah’s mystery desert sculpture: art or graffito?

The Obelisk, Utah • Several years ago — likely sometime in 2016 — one or more artists carrying over 100 pounds of stainless steel hiked into a remote alcove in San Juan County, expertly cut a hole into the sandstone with a rock saw and erected a three-sided obelisk beneath a narrow pour-off.The sculpture was carefully placed away from roads and out of sight from any distant vantage point in an obscure canyon, which in December 2016 would become part of Bears Ears National Monume