Located Third & Dequeen, playground south of school building Hatfield Arkansas
Administered by Hatfield Elementary School District Route 4, Box 668-A Mena Arkansas 71953
Date:
Dedicated 1988
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arkansas survey, 1993.
Image on file.
The Mena Star, Nov. 19, 1988, pg. 4.
unsigned
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Summary:
An abstract, playground sculpture that the artist describes as a "sort of mix between a dinosaur, lizard, and a big bug," made from a series of buried tires stacked in a long S-curve from tail to head. There are six "legs" made of timbers, forming low triangles perpendicular to each other, three to a side, spaced about eighteen feet apart starting at the "head" and ending about mid-section. Branched tree forms are buried at the head and tail. There are a series of vertical posts along the spine running the length of the area defined by the tree forms, in the center of the spine and connected by a "web" of chain links.
