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Howard Finster Biography | Portfolio
ranging from Elvis, Leonardo de Vinci, model-T's and Coca Cola shrines, to self portraits with messages written in bright colors. Each finished piece was stamped with its number on the back and the time it was completed. Finster also filled-in a two-and-a-half-acre swamp by himself. He then spent years making poetry out of rubbish, weaving his vision amid a jungle of berries and fruit. "One night I asked what I had preached on that morning and everybody forgot my message," he said. "And that's why I decided to build my garden, so they can't forget." Finster has appeared on the Tonight Show, illustrated album covers for R.E.M. and Talking Heads, and has been featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Howard Finster passed away in October of 2001 at the age of 84. His memory will live on forever in his art and in Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia, in the northwest corner of the state. |
