salvation mountain
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This Man Built A Colourful Mountain In The Desert With His Bare Hands
The only colour in the landscape for miles, Salvation Mountain looms like a mirage on the horizon. The three-storey, three-decade work of artist Leonard Knight, who died yesterday at the age of 82, is a piece of brightly painted, hand-sculpted California desert, like an impossibly scaled cathedral made from Play-Doh.