Salvation Mountain Leonard Knight

Salvation Mountain is the creation of visionary folk artist Leonard Knight. His truck broke down in the California desert near Niland, Calif. at a spot known as Slab City. He originally planned to only stay a short while and build a small religious sculpture that said, God is Love. He would end up spending the rest of his life in the spot building what came to be known as Salvation Mountain, a legendary folk art creation. This is footage I shot with Leonard in 2008 and in 1988 not long after he began work on the mountain.