“He wasn’t much of an artist,” said a volunteer docent who tends to Salvation Mountain, an art installation in the Southern California desert, since its founder died.
The mountain is built on county land. In 1994, Imperial County officials attempted to dismantle the artwork, claiming there were high amounts of lead from the paint in the soil. The county planned to charge squatters living in Slab City a user fee and claimed that the religious monument at its entrance was unsightly. After a petition garnered several hundred signatures and an independent lab tested the soil and found it was nontoxic, the structure survived.
strives to maintain the mountain as Knight did — with coat after coat applied to a desert oddity that’s managed to resist the elements and change.
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