Leonard Knight, the designer and builder of Salvation Mountain, because of his love for God, he spent 24 years to complete the feat of Salvation Mountain. There is a person in the world that may not be included in the annals of history, but lives an extraordinary life in the ordinary. Extraordinary life is often not easy for Knight, because the process always brings some hard and crazy ingredients, but these ingredients have the power to make others stop, reflect, marvel, and move.
The whole mountain is engraved with verses praising God in the Bible, especially the conspicuous "God is Love", just like a bright lamp in the California desert, is the main message conveyed by the whole mountain.
“I pray to God every day and hope that through my hands, people will know that Jesus loves everyone!”——Leonard Knight
The various patterns of Salvation Mountain are meaningful in the creator's pen: The undulating blue and white stripes along the mountain represent the waterfall. A waterfall full of flowers flows to the bottom of the mountain and turns into dark blue and light blue, symbolizing the sea.
In addition to these color combinations and impacts, the words on the mountain of salvation are what makes me very excited. The capitalized “LOVE” and “JESUS” everywhere, I think they are “the power of words”. When a lot of people are climbing the hills in this desert, walking along the yellow road to the top of the mountain, the process of reading the text and stroking the text is the process of getting perched and calming the soul. This power is similar to what I want to deliver through my own project. Most of the texts appearing on the mountain of salvation are excerpts from the Bible. In my next step, I will integrate excerpts from some books, poems, and diaries I wrote, and reorganize and integrate them.
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