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St. Eom, Medallion with Head, 1970s, paint on concrete, 4 1⁄4 x 22 in. (10.8 x 55.9 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.83

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8 January 2023: Some photos from Pasaquan near Buena Vista, Georgia. Pasaquan was the vision of artist and fortune teller Eddie Owens Martin, who was also known as St. EOM. Many more photos will be posted at my blog, Raised by Wolves (gmlupo.com) in the next few days.

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Pasaquan!

Careful readers of this blog may recall a post about a piece at the High Museum by St. EOM, aka Eddie Owens Martin. http://cubedweller.tumblr.com/post/150421397777/eddie-owens-martin-st-eom-1908-1986-pasaquoyan

Well this is the place. His place. Near Buena Vista (pronounced Byoona Vista), GA. Almost 2.5 hours from home, by Internal Combustion Vehicle.

Yesterday was the grand reopening of Pasaquan, lovingly restored by friends and fans, Columbus State University faculty and students, and the Kohler Foundation, who does many good things with that money we spend on faucets and other plumbing pieces.

You may notice some people with rather vertical hairstyles. These were available to anyone daring enough. Eddie Martin saw these people with tall hair in a vision he had as a child, suffering a fever.

The property is amazing, the people of Buena Vista are super nice, and being around kindred spirits is always an uplifting experience.

This was so well organized, school buses ferried people from the courthouse square to Pasaquan, while local residents regaled us with snippets of local history on the 10 minute trip. I have never seen so many orange cones in one place before.

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Eddie Owens Martin, St. EOM 1908-1986 Pasaquoyan Man with Ritual Headdress and Levitation Suit ca 1965-75 High Museum of Art “Your hair is your antenna to the spirit world, man, and you should never cut it,” St. EOM

Georgia raises some great artists.

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Representatives of the Wisconsin-based Kohler Foundation recently visited St EOM’s Pasaquan, the visionary art complex located near Buena Vista, GA. The purpose of the visit was to assess the possibility of restoring the famous art site. Terri Yoho, Executive Director, and a team of art conservators spent two days touring Pasaquan and assessing the condition of the site. The Kohler Foundation is one of the very few charitable trusts in the United States that focuses on restoring environmental artwork by self-taught American artists like St. EOM. Since the late 1970s, the preservation of folk architecture and art environments has been a major thrust of Kohler Foundation. Should the Kohler Foundation decide to undertake the restoration of Pasaquan, they would assume ownership of the art site, expend the funds, time, and expertise to restore the site, and then re-gift it to a recipient organization. The recipient arts organization must agree to maintain the site into the future before any conservation work by Kohler could happen. Since soon after the death of artist Eddie Owens Martin (St. EOM) in 1986, Pasaquan has been under the care of the Pasaquan Preservation Society, Inc. During that time, the Buena Vista-based Society has worked to prevent the decay and degradation of Pasaquan from the ravages of time and weather. Over the years Pasaquan has received support from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Georgia Council for the Arts, The Mildred Miller Fort Foundation, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Southern Arts Federation, the Flint Energies Foundation, and a long list of additional contributors. However, no single gift has enabled the complete restoration and long-term preservation of the internationally-known art site. The Kohler Foundation’s interest in Pasaquan may soon change that.

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Thank you to T. Hardy Morris for filming this video for his wonderful song, "Quit Diggin'," at Pasaquan. Buy the album called Audition Tapes here.

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Pasaquoyan Eyes