Eddie Owens Martin Couldn't Relate to Society

"I built this place to have something to identify with, 'cause there's nothing I see in this society that I identify with or desire to emulate."  - Eddie Owens Martin, Artist, 1908-1986

Eddie Owens Martin (aka St. EOM) of Buena Vista, Georgia, a sharecropper's son with a 6th grade education, made a living as a fortune teller while building Pasaquan, the masterpiece outsider art installment in which he lived. He built his elaborate compound out of cinder blocks, cement, and various reclaimed materials, and painted it with mismixed Sherwin Williams paint from the local hardware store.

I want to go there someday. Here it is:

http://www.amazingsights.net/st-eom.html