“I’m not interested in fighting people over this and it seemed like some folks thought that this piece was dividing the community, and I am not interested in dividing the community.” Pavia Justinian Pavia Justinian, artist who created Zafira, the sculpture that stirred controversy in Fruita.

Zafira has found a home.

Most people knew she would, but some people hoped she would remain homeless.

Zafira created quite the firestorm of controversy, albeit a brief one.

As a spectacularly colored curvy sculpture, Zafira was installed inside Mulberry Plaza in Fruita on Sept. 3 as part of the HeART of Fruita Program.

Zafira was unceremoniously yanked from public view via forklift 16 days later.

In just a couple of weeks, Zafira became the most famous and most infamous piece of art the area has

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