Source: Atlas Obscura
Thanks for Visiting by Francesca Berrini and Lindsey Rickert combines imagery of a sunset over Fernley, a polaroid found at Seven Magic Mountains, and pictures of signage outside Rhyolite to create an old-fashioned post card in homage to the Silver State. Francesca Berrini/Lindsey Rickert
Time was top of mind as Francesca Berrini and Lindsey Rickert began the final days of their journey on “The Fellowship of Highway 95,” a week-long artistic adventure from Las Vegas to Reno up Nevada’s “Free-Range Art Highway” organized by Atlas Obscura and TravelNevada. They were looking ahead to the second phase of their project, which would take place entirely within a studio. But before the trip was done, they had several more stops to make.
In continuation of the previous days’ journey into the mythical “unknown,” the women headed to Walker Lake to catch a glimpse of Cecil the Serpent, the elusive sea monster said to reside in the lake.
It’s clear that Cecil holds a privileged place in the town of Hawthorne’s lore. Chatting with locals, the artists learned that it’s a tradition to take marshmallows down to Walker Lake’s shores with the hopes of coaxing the creature from the waters’ depths. Hawthorne’s unofficial mascot also makes appearances several times per year during parades, when he slithers through town blowing smoke through his nose.
In town, they stumbled upon the very float itself, stored in an open-air garage and visible from the road.
“We may not have spotted Cecil…but he has definitely still inspired our work,” Rickert wrote in day five’s travel journal.
Contemplating Cecil and the dwindling time left on their trip, Berrini and Rickert mused on Nevada’s cosmic scale. Observing the mountains that surrounded them, they thought of Lake Lahontan, the Pleistocene body of water that once covered a good portion of the state. Sea monsters did, in fact, once swim through this desert.
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