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A cat sits on a painted car at Salvation Mountain, a hillside covered with Biblical messages and symbols built over a thirty-year period by outsider artist and Vermont native Leonard Knight, in Slab City, California, about 50 miles (80km) north of the US border with Mexico, on March 10, 2019. In 2002 the Folk Art Society of America declared the 150 foot (46 meter)-wide hill in the Sonoran desert a national folk art shrine. Knight, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 82, used adobe and straw and thousands of gallons of donated and found paint to decorate it with religious scriptures as well as flowers, trees, waterfalls, suns, and bluebirds, with “Love” as his overarching theme. (Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP Photo)
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