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   The Lee Oriental Rock Garden is not quite a maze, but you can feel like it is when wandering through it because there is so much to see.  You easily forget from which direction you came, and can have no idea in which direction you want to go!  There is something to see at every turn and at every level of view.
   Just figuring out what you are looking at can be daunting.  I spent considerable time studying what appeared to be an enshrined panel surrounded by stones, bottles, and other colorful decor.
   Not wanting to touch it, I carefully considered the possibilities as to what it might be.  It looked like some kind of Asian Jackson Pollock work of art -- patterns with inner detail that did not draw my eye to any central point or theme, but actually widened my gaze.  I knew I had discovered some new subtlety of Asian Art -- a kind of painting or etching I had never seen before.
   After giving up, I asked Mr. Lee about its significance. 
   There was some pause.  "It's a mirror," he said casually, and walked over and smeared his finger across it. "Ah, dust," he remarked with a smile as he showed me his fingertip.
   Pollock obliterated.

Looking through the entry portal to the Lee Oriental Rock Garden, in Phoenix, Arizona.

   Sure, there are plenty of objects here that are not stone, and have nothing to do with rocks per se, but there is no way one could make such a place without rocks.  Indeed, even as the name implies, this is a "rock garden" -- a place where rocks thrive!
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