I recently visited Nevada, so I can say without a shadow of a doubt that it is unlike anywhere else. People in Nevada do crazy things like wear sequins during daytime hours and stay up all night chain-smoking while trying to win back the pension they gambled away. They also plant cars in the desert like trees.
The International Car Forest of the Last Church (I know, right?) is the brainchild of artists Chad Sorg and Mark Rippie. Rippie initially painted and planted one car in the desert outside of Goldfield, Nevada, and the idea was born. Now more than 40 automobiles have been balanced upright on their ends, or stacked on top of each other and painted with all kinds of graffiti. Rippie was anti organized religion, and apparently looked at the place as a kind of holy space. Then he went to jail on gun charges. He also had a falling out with Sorg, so the grand plan to create a fabulous junkyard church now stands alone, as a reminder not to do hard drugs in the desert.
It’s called dehydration, people.
