Qualla: Pasaquan: One Man's Concrete Vision https://qualla.com/pasaquan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/g/b/pasaquan-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pasaquan: One Man's Concrete Vision https://qualla.com/pasaquan Pasaquan: One Man's Concrete Vision: Introduction https://qualla.com/pasaquan/ Photo credit TSchiroMGA, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name means roughly 'the past coming together,' coined from Spanish and Chinese by a man who called himself Saint EOM and claimed a spirit told him to build it. Pasaquan sits on seven acres of former farmland near Buena Vista, Georgia -- six major structures, painted concrete walls stretching in every direction, sculptures staring from every angle, all of it blazing with color that has no business being this deep in rural Marion County. Eddie Owens Martin created this compound over decades, funding it with fortune-telling money, building it with his own hands and local materials. It is internationally renowned, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and utterly impossible to mistake for anything else on Earth.

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/g/b/pasaquan-wp/djgb-pasaquan-one-mans-concrete-vision-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pasaquan: One Man's Concrete Vision: Born on the Fourth of July https://qualla.com/pasaquan/ Photo credit TSchiroMGA, CC BY-SA 4.0. Eddie Owens Martin came into the world on July 4, 1908, in Glen Alta, a village in Marion County, Georgia. He was one of nine children in a sharecropper family. His father was abusive, and by fourteen Martin had fled to New York City, where he survived as a sex worker. His early ...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/g/b/pasaquan-wp/djgb-pasaquan-one-mans-concrete-vision-born-on-the-fourth-of-july.mp3 0:06 2 full Pasaquan: One Man's Concrete Vision: The Spirit and the Saint https://qualla.com/pasaquan/ Photo credit TSchiroMGA, CC BY-SA 4.0. Martin claimed a spirit inspired him to create a religion called Pasaquoyanism, which emphasized connection to the natural world and the use of hair. The spirit also bestowed his new name: Saint EOM. When his mother died in 1950, Martin inherited the family house and seven acres ...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/g/b/pasaquan-wp/djgb-pasaquan-one-mans-concrete-vision-the-spirit-and-the-saint.mp3 0:06 3 full Pasaquan: One Man's Concrete Vision: Concrete Prophecy https://qualla.com/pasaquan/ Photo credit TSchiroMGA, CC BY-SA 4.0. What Martin built defies easy categorization. Six major structures anchor the compound, including a redesigned 1885 farmhouse that was already on the property. Painted concrete sculptures stand guard throughout the grounds. Walls of painted masonry concrete stretch between struct...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/g/b/pasaquan-wp/djgb-pasaquan-one-mans-concrete-vision-concrete-prophecy.mp3 0:06 4 full Pasaquan: One Man's Concrete Vision: Rescue and Restoration https://qualla.com/pasaquan/ Photo credit TSchiroMGA, CC BY-SA 4.0. Martin died on April 16, 1986. The Marion County Historical Society assumed ownership of Pasaquan, and a special committee formed to care for the site. That committee evolved into the Pasaquan Preservation Society, which operated the compound until 2014. Maintaining an outdoor ar...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/g/b/pasaquan-wp/djgb-pasaquan-one-mans-concrete-vision-rescue-and-restoration.mp3 0:06 5 full Pasaquan: One Man's Concrete Vision: The World He Left Behind https://qualla.com/pasaquan/ Photo credit Jonathunder, Public domain. Pasaquan endures as one of the most remarkable visionary art environments in the United States. In 2008, it was accepted for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. An opera celebrating Martin's life -- Eddie's Stone Song: Odyssey of the First Pasaquoyan -- was creat...

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