The folk art monument in the desert near the Salton Sea grapples with extreme weather, social-media-fueled tourism and its own tattering beauty. By Emma Grillo Photographs by Kitra Cahana Reporting ...

Leonard Knight worked for more than 30 years to build Salvation Mountain, a 50×150-foot visionary art environment in the desert just east of the Salton Sea. Religious scholar Sara M. Patterson spent ...

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The story of Salvation Mountain is one of resilience and perseverance. Since Leonard Knight began construction of the Southern California desert monument in 1984, it’s been met with various challenges ...

Our first Travelin’ Solo trip has been going down the road for a while. Alone. Together. This is our last post from the trip. Thanks for coming along. The Joshua Tree National Park area of California ...

NILAND, Calif. — Fame has found Leonard Knight, the religiously inspired artist who has spent 16 years in the desert of Imperial County painting “God Is Love” and other inspirational messages on a ...

Leonard Knight was on his way to the west coast in the mid-1980s when his van broke down on Interstate 80 near Shelton and he spent 3 years there. Members of the rural community adopted the man and ...