Location: U of A Campus, just South of the parking garage at
Mountain Ave. and 2nd Street.
Details: Giant decorative iron A with tile mosaic, solar cells (we
think it lights up at night), and a mirrored crescent moon at the top.
She Said:
This is a very cool piece; it was fun to walk around it and discover
all the different animals, insects, plants, and other designs
incorporated into the A. I'm sure that if I go back to look at it
again, I'll see things I didn't notice the first time. I
particularly liked the frogs (not shown here) that cavort in a blue
tile river next to the javelinas pictured above, and the various
hummingbirds that are included in the design.
He Said:
Like the City of Tucson, the University of Arizona believes that Public
Art is a basic public service and requires that a fraction of the
amount spent for new construction be spent on artwork.
This particular piece is a real treasure, filled with intricate details
showing life in the desert that merge into the giant A representing the
university. Here, in a short time you can find tile hummingbirds,
javelinas (for those outside Tucson, javelinas resemble pigs, but are
really peccaries, and not related), saguaros, frogs, dragonflies, and
on and on. It's a veritable mosaic jam-packed with life, just like the
Sonoran Desert that surrounds Tucson.
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