A Journey to Pasaquan







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The Land of Pasaquan
On October 29-30, 2005, the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art sponsored a Magical Mystery Tour.

We took a busload of 58 adventurous people from Jacksonville, Florida, to see Pasaquan, which is one of the most important visionary/outsider artist sights in North America.
Every passenger on our journey was blown away by this amazing place!

We hope you will look over this website and get an idea of what an extraordinary experience we had. We also hope that other museums and groups around the country will use our ideas and this website as a template for making their own weekend trip to this unique destination that is light years away from your ordinary world.

This journey was a fund-raiser for the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art,
and it made $1,500 for the museum, as well as giving our passengers what
many of them called ". . . one of the best trips I've ever taken!"
 
A journey to a land beyond your wildest dreams . . .
We had several Special Surprises on our trip.
Click here to see what they were.


Pasaquan is a 4-acre fantasyland of imagination and art located deep in the woods just outside Buena Vista, Georgia.  The creation of self-taught visionary artist Eddie Owens Martin (a.k.a. St. EOM), this complex of other-worldly towers, pagodas, temples, walls, surrealistic structures, statues, and thousands of individual works of art is unlike any place else on earth.
Our extraordinary journey was on a luxury motorcoach dubbed "The Magic Bus." We left Jacksonville on Saturday morning and returned Sunday afternoon. We stayed in the magnificent turn-of-the-century Windsor Hotel in Americus, Georgia.

Mostly hidden from view since Martin's death in 1986, Pasaquan is now being rediscovered by artists and art historians from around the world. It is considered by many scholars to be one of the most significant folk art sites in America. This wild, technicolor paradise is certainly one of the most startling examples of eccentric art in the entire universe.

Eddy Owens Martin"I built this place to have something to identify with,'cause there's nothin' I see in this society that I identify with or desire to emulate. Here I can be in my own world, with my temples and designs and the spirit of God."

         -- St. EOM


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