Gila Monster at a Little Free Library — Carol M. Highsmith

Carol M. Highsmith photographed this playful neighborhood scene in Tucson, Arizona, in 2018. Beside a small Little Free Library in the Dunbar Spring neighborhood lies an oversized sculpted Gila monster, its patterned orange-and-dark body stretching across a dry desert garden filled with cactus, gravel, trees, and native vegetation.

Created by Hirotsune Tashima and Jason Butler, the sculpture is depicted reading “The End of the Chapter,” a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Highsmith's wide composition combines public art, books, desert landscaping, and everyday residential architecture in an engaging record of neighborhood character in Tucson.

Artwork Details

• Artist: Carol M. Highsmith
• Title: Even a sculpted gila monster appears to be into reading near a Little Free Library (also known as a “birdhouse library”) in the modest Dunbar Spring neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona
• Original title: Even a sculpted gila monster appears to be into reading near a Little Free Library (also known as a “birdhouse library”) in the modest Dunbar Spring neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona
• Series: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Carol M. Highsmith Archive
• Date: March 15, 2018
• Period: Contemporary
• Place of Origin: Dunbar Spring neighborhood, Tucson, Arizona, United States
• Medium: Digital color photograph, TIFF file

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