Original Art, Photography, Vintage Illustration
I was lucky enough to get a one-on-one tour by Leonard Knight himself when I arrived on a burning hot afternoon only a week or so before he passed away. He created the awesome man-made mountain in the California Desert area of Imperial County, north of Calipatria, northeast of Niland, near the Slab City squatter/art commune, and several miles from the Salton Sea. Leonard and the Mountain were featured in Sean Penn's 2007 movie Into the Wild. The mountain was "28 years in the making, covered in half a million gallons of latex paint. What started as a small monument made of dirt and painted cement became, over time, a sprawling adobe and hay-bale mountain complex, with peripheral structures made of telephone poles, tires, and car...
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