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[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-salvation-mountain-20170129-story.html by Chris Iovenko 27/1/17 Los Angeles Times] | [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-salvation-mountain-20170129-story.html by Chris Iovenko 27/1/17 Los Angeles Times] | ||
People call it a mountain, but it’s just 150 feet across and five stories tall, jutting skyward like a candy-colored, Jesus-inspired hallucination brought to life on the subdued pastel palette of the desert. Created in a sustained fever dream by the self-taught artist Leonard Knight over nearly three decades, Salvation Mountain rose as a monument to individual fortitude and artistic. | People call it a mountain, but it’s just 150 feet across and five stories tall, jutting skyward like a candy-colored, Jesus-inspired hallucination brought to life on the subdued pastel palette of the desert. Created in a sustained fever dream by the self-taught artist Leonard Knight over nearly three decades, Salvation Mountain rose as a monument to individual fortitude and artistic. | ||
=====Life in Slab City===== | |||
[https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/idUSRTR2YX4D/ by Reuters 7/3/12] | |||
Located on a former military base, Slab City, California is a place on the fringe both geographically and philosophically. | |||
