Gecko owner creates tiny art gallery for her pet
Jill Young made miniature gecko-themed versions of some of her favourite paintings to put inside it.
A gecko owner has made a tiny art gallery for her pet – complete with lizard-themed pictures.
Jill Young, 21, was inspired to create the miniature museum for her pet gecko, called The Mayor, after seeing pictures on Twitter of someone attempting a similar project for their gerbils.
Ms Young, a student from Dallas, Texas, took some of her favourite well-known paintings and created miniature gecko-themed versions of them.
She even gave them appropriate names, like Gecko With A Pearl Earring, American Gecko and Composition With Red, Blue, Yellow And Gecko.
“That one I just liked,” she said. “And I wanted to have him holding a pitchfork.”
When The Mayor was let loose in the museum he was initially a little tentative, Ms Young said, but she believes he enjoyed the change of scene.
“He climbed around on top of the paintings and I think that was his way of appreciating them.”
A video of her project, which she uploaded to TikTok, has been viewed more than a million times.
“It’s easy to get into a funk now that everything’s just stalled, but having projects like this which are small and fun and make people happy has been a good way to distract myself from all that,” she said.
For any other gecko owners who would like to make a museum for their pet, Ms Young has created a printable kit, which is for sale on her Etsy page, The Crafty Mayor.
