House of Eternal Return
As the years have gone on, Garner and the Meow Wolf team have tried to anticipate how to move audiences through that initial itch to “figure out” the mystery. “There’s no real linear path to it, but we really try to figure out ‘how do we help people get into the story while not hand-holding them?’ So there is an expectation that’s set up. And then with that, the story really only exists for the most part in the house space itself. Once you go beyond the house, it’s just kind of random connections of the family. Maybe you realized there’s a lot of bottlenecks for reading material, you got one person with this diary, and they’re going to sit there and read it for an hour. So we’ve tried adding QR codes to things.” Garner reflected on what they’ve learned from House of Eternal Retrun. “That’s definitely something that we try to address in some of the other exhibitions and then everything’s in past tense.”
