Last week we headed out on an Adventurous road trip. We checked out this eclectic community of Slab City, California - We loved all the colors and we all enjoyed the artistic feel to this area. It’s amazing what you can find in the desert. Salvation Mountain has always been very intriguing to me. It’s out in the middle of nowhere but people come from all over the world to see it.
Salvation mountain is a painted hillside in the SoCal desert. It’s creator, Leonard Knight, who passed away in 2014, decided to spread a message of love after accepting Jesus. It was created many years ago, Leonard was passionate about getting the message of salvation to everyone.
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This handmade masterpiece by Leonard Knight is just taking my breath away!
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| This ever-changing artwork in the Sonoran Desert is a proclamation of faith and love, built from salvaged materials with a generous use of donated paint. |
Leonard Knight is the genius artist behind this amazing artwork. He started with one bag of cement and wanted to spend a week building a monument to share the gospel with others. That week turned into many weeks, which turned into months and then years. The mountain grew and grew with cement and paint but ended up crumbling. He decided to rebuild, using clay. He painted it, and even after his death several years ago, there are caretakers that keep it up and repair it as needed.
Tons of paint is donated to keep it colorful. It was Leonard’s hope that his message of love would be seen by those all over the world. It was really special to see in person.
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| Walking at the hand-painted yellow brick road to Salvation Mountain’s 50ft summit. So worth the drive to the desert. |
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| A creative tribute to God and God's love for us. |
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| A lot of history to learn. Take time and look at all the pieces. |
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| We enjoyed walking through the colorful trees, with all the positive writings on the walls. |
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| Mesmerize |
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| They painted this old camper such a brilliant idea. |
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| Another successful Jeep adventure on a sunny California desert. |
What’s the most unique art installation you have found across the world? Share it with us on the comment below.
Oooooh this mountain is so so pretty! All the colors and the paint everywhere! I'd love to go there!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful place to visit! It's impressive how many little details make this up.
ReplyDeleteI would love to walk the yellow brick road and check out this impressive masterpiece. It's so colorful and I love the message of salvation.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of this place until now. Wonderful place to stroll around and visit
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a pretty amazing experience. I would love to see this in person. This is something that I know my family would love.
ReplyDeleteI pretty sure your family will enjoy this place as much as we do.
DeleteWow what an incredible place to go and visit! Those paintings are amazing and it just looks incredible. I would love to see it myself.
ReplyDeleteI just LOVE all the colors going on here. I would love to visit one day. It would be so neat to see in person.
ReplyDeleteIt so fun to see it in person.
DeleteThis is so cool looking. I love how the colors just make everything look.
ReplyDeleteI love art! Here in Atlanta there is something called the red door and you have to go hunting for it. Loving the colors here
ReplyDeleteI've never been here but have always wanted to go!I love the colors. It just looks like a cool place to check out.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a beautiful place! This is one of the things I love about reading blogs: you're always guaranteed to come across and interesting place such as this!
ReplyDeleteThank you I'm glad you enjoy this post and I hope someday you can come and visit Salvation Mountain and see it for yourself so worth it.
DeleteOh my this is absolutely beautiful! I love finding unique places like salvation mountain to visit and now I am so adding this to my travel list!
ReplyDeleteThat would totally bring all my artsy side! It would be so much fun to explore here and see how creative people can be.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely this is a paradise for artist. How I wish I am good at drawing I would love to share my talent through this.
DeleteWhat a beautiful mountain of color! The pictures are so cute and I love the message of it as well.
ReplyDeleteThe Bible message is everything!
DeleteThis place has always intrigued me and I would love to visit.
ReplyDeleteThis area is very unique. So colorful. Kids would enjoy this really.
ReplyDeleteI never knew about Slab City but I'm going to check it out one of these days. Thanks for a great post with cool pictures.
ReplyDeleteIt must be really inspirational for the people who visit it! I love all the bright colors.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool place to visit and photograph. Need to add this to my bucket list. I bet will be fun to snap pictures with all those lovely colors.
ReplyDeletelooks like we're in a cartoon planet ,extraordinary
ReplyDeleteNow, this is a beautiful mountain! I love the whole artwork going on here..the colors make it so pretty. I would need some gram shots from here.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really magnificent place to see those artistic creations. Painting the old camper is so nice! Kudos to Leonard Knight for starting it.
ReplyDeleteWow! This is the first time that I've heard of this place. That looks like an amazing place to explore. Would love to go!
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It’s amazing how artistic people are when expressing something they are passionate about. I totally want to see this in person
ReplyDeleteThis looks so beautiful! I would love to visit salvation mountain and be inspired of all the messaged written on it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a colorful shrine. Didn't we have this kind of place in Pinas sis?
ReplyDeleteI am not sure sis , maybe there is that I am not aware of. This is the first time I see huge place of fully human art. Except the mountain and the dirt of course. It blows my mind how talented and creative the artist behind this Mountain art. To come out with this brilliant attraction.
DeleteWow! That sure did take a lot of patience and perseverance to get completed. The colours are amazing and so vivid. It reminds me of a lot of places near the Mediterranean sea.
ReplyDeleteThis is a pure and perfect place. I would love to visit some day!
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous place filled with bright color. I absolutely love it! And so Insta-Worthy too.
ReplyDeleteWhoa now that looks really cool! I would love to visit that when I get out there again!
ReplyDeleteI like the colorful areas to explore there. Love the name too, that's a good message to send.
ReplyDeleteWow, I loved looking at all your pics! These look amazing and I need to plan a visit!
ReplyDeleteThis is just down the road from me and I have yet to visit. I can't believe it wasn't busy when you went!
ReplyDeleteWe are surprise to I've heard lots of people go here despite of hot desert weather. I guess we are so lucky we had a great time though.
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