Gardening at Night

"'It just come to me that the world started with a beautiful garden,' Finster told writer Tom Patterson in the 1980s, 'so why not let it end with a beautiful garden?'
"Today, the world lumbers on. But Finster's gardens, once a magnet for artists such as Keith Haring and pop icons including R.E.M., are an overgrown tangle surrounded by a chain-link fence and barbed wire."

Richard Fausset in the Los Angeles Times reports on the disputed legacy of folk artist Howard Finster.