Jon Pittman
alias
Raymond Beaver
"Life is a banquet - and most poor suckers are starving to
death!" - Auntie Mame
Three series of
drawings by Jon Pittman alias Raymond Beaver:
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Cosmic Tube and Other Drawings
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As a Result of Listening to Brazilian Music
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Table Landscapes, Centerpieces etc.
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Leonard Knight
After working five years in Nebraska building a hot air balloon, Leonard Knight
in 1986 drove to Slab City, three miles east of Niland, California, to make one
final attempt to fly the craft. The balloon hugged the ground, too large
to have "slipped the surly bonds of Earth."
Leonard Knight stayed on at the site, living in a converted truck without
electricity, phone or heat, and began creating a fantastic mound of dirt, adobe
and paint.
Several years ago he began constructing an abstract
representation of his hot air balloon, which is the focus of this one-man show.
For materials he is using adobe, bales of hay, tires, salvaged auto glass, parts
of dead trees and acrylic paint. The fantastic structure is located just south
of his grand and monumental Salvation Mountain.
The first time I met Leonard Knight and visited Salvation
Mountain, he gathered-up his visitors at the Calipatria Airport (about 15 miles
south of Niland) in one of his infamous and famously decorated trucks. Upon our
return to the airport, for the first time in his life, Leonard flew in a
single-engine airplane and handled the controls between take-off and landing, on
a flight over his fantastic mountain.
Leonard Knight can be contacted at Box 298, Niland, California 92257.
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