The Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India - “also known as Nek Chand’s Rock Garden after its founder Nek Chand Saini, a government official who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Today it is spread over an area of 40 acres (16 ha). It is completely built of industrial and home waste and discarded items.” (Wikipedia)
Got to jump in on the New York Times Op-Ed,The Danger of an Incurious President. For the final we ended up going with a combination of the first two sketches, pushing away from the cliff of plummeting sand to a dark folded reality.