Fata Morgana is a sculpture carved in 2005 by George Kurjanowicz of Barre, Vermont, of Kurjanowicz Sculpture Studio from Cold Spring Granite's diamond pink granite from Rockville Quarry #1, just west of HWY 23 before the I-94/HWY 23 interchange. Weighing about 5,300 lbs., it was commissioned for the 2005 Granite Country USA exposition, donated by the St. Cloud Area Convention and Visitors Bureau to Quarry Park, and installed there on June 27, 2013. Its name comes from Fata Morgana, an unusual and complex form of superior mirage seen in a narrow band just above the horizon. The Italian phrase derives from the Vulgar Latin for "fairy" and from the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, reflecting a belief that such mirages, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the air or false land created by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their death. These mirages can distort their underlying object or objects so greatly that they become completely unrecognizable, and they may appear on land or at sea, in polar regions or deserts, involving distant boats, islands, coastlines, or other objects. They form only when a steep thermal inversion creates an atmospheric duct, with significantly warmer air resting over colder dense air, and that duct acts like a refracting lens that produces a series of inverted and erect images.