[2] Sometime after 2010, Hawkins had previously built a lighthouse nearby in the Lucerne Valley area of the Mojave Desert but it was subsequently destroyed and dismantled by vandals and scavengers.

[3] In 2014, Hawkins presented an exhibition title "Desert Lighthouse Ultimatum" at the University of California, Riverside's Culver Center for the Arts Museum.

[4] The theme of his exhibition was the return of his effort to establish a permanent lighthouse in the Mojave Desert.

[5] Three years later on July 1, 2017 the Desert Lighthouse was unveiled to the public during an evening "Launch Event".

Hawkins’s most recent Desert Lighthouse embodies both the doomed, abject heroics of Robert Smithson and company, and a post-apocalyptic, DIY absurdism that has already made it a populist icon among the survivalist locals.