Artist and sculptor Mere Mason leaned over what looks like an oversized black horseshoe lying on a workbench Tuesday in her Riverside studio.
Wearing a pink respirator, the 45-year-old Mason brushed on a coat of resin to the fiberglass arch which by, this weekend, will display every color of the rainbow.
Mason plans to fashion the rainbow atop an abandoned pay phone stand in front of the Wendy’s at Park and Margaret streets in Five Points and retrofit it into a piece of public art and statement piece just in time for the Jax River City Pride festival on Saturday at Riverside Park and the parade Sunday…