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Related: About this forumGila monster reading a book draws looks in Tucson neighborhood
Last edited Tue Mar 26, 2013, 02:20 PM - Edit history (1)
Tucson Oddity: Gila monster reading a book draws looks in Tucson neighborhood
The huge Gila monster sculpture includes a literary device - the lizard is reading a book. The art is in the Dunbar Spring Neighborhood.
no story, but the link anyway http://azstarnet.com/news/local/tucson-oddity-gila-monster-reading-a-book-draws-looks-in/image_114a624b-ad36-5259-a0d8-a9028463ecc7.html
edit: yes there was a story! I knew there should have been as it is a regular column in the paper version and sure enough I saw it in the paper version last night. had to click a different link, http://azstarnet.com/news/local/tucson-oddity-gila-monster-reading-a-book-draws-looks-in/article_45420715-09ef-5f71-a5ca-fc2e520fcb8e.html
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"We've had lots of comments on it since it was installed in December," said Ian Fritz, president of the Dunbar Spring Neighborhood Association. "It's very sturdy and can be used as a bench. And that Gila monster seems to slow traffic in the neighborhood more than other methods" of traffic management.
Fritz said artists Hirotsune Tashima and Jason Butler created the big lizard likeness as part of a neighborhood reinvestment program.
The fact that the monster is shown reading a book ties the piece nicely to the Little Free Library. The library, about the size of a large suitcase, invites people to "take a book, leave a book" with no fees involved.
"It was kind of a community effort," with several people involved in the library design and construction, Fritz said.
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Gila monster reading a book draws looks in Tucson neighborhood (Original Post)
Kali
Mar 2013
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Jenoch
(7,720 posts)1. That's not a Gila Monster reading a book.
That's a Gila Monster STEPPING on a book.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)2. That big fat tail is incredibly creepy.
ChazII
(6,198 posts)3. With summer coming on
that tail needs to be fat.
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)4. That is a beautifully rendered and realistic sculpture. n/t
THAT's the sort of thing that I love about Tucson.
When we had a sewer line eruption a few years ago in the southwest side of town (A mainly Hispanic area), the powers-that-be took an unconscionable length of time to repair the long-neglected, antiquated line and clean up the damage. Once the work was done, one of our testier local artists created an enormous concrete sculpture for the neighborhood...depicting broken sewer lines spewing brown sludge. City Council was not amused.
It is unwise to piss off a Tucson artist.