Salvation Mountain, Painted Support Structure
by Lorena Cassady
Title
Salvation Mountain, Painted Support Structure
Artist
Lorena Cassady
Medium
Mixed Media - Photograph
Description
This is a photograph of some of the internal structural support for rooms and chapels under Salvation Mountain. The Mountain was a one-man project and Leonard used materials that were readily available in the California desert of Imperial County.
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 windows, as well as art cars and sculptures, all painted in a patchwork of stripes and color blocks of whatever paint was donated that week.— Aaron Huey, National Geographic
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November 23rd, 2022
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