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A new city art project is taking shape on Interstate 30 in Grand Prairie.

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A tile mosaic

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is being installed on two sides of this retaining wall near the freeway. The tiles are made from

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recycled glass and are fabricated in sheets. The sheets are numbered according to a template

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that workers use to put the sheets in the right place on the wall. Eventually, they'll

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form a 233 foot long ribbon of colors and patterns based on a prairie thing.

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The grasses are pretty neutral but depending on the time of the year that you see them,

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they change, they get yellow or they get orange with the end of the summer and of course

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the blue bonnets are beautiful in the spring but what really helped my whole design come

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together was the gradation from, I'm calling the morning sun all the way into the evening

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night. City officials believe the artwork will brighten up the drive for commuters

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and stop graffiti vandals from using the site. And the broken window theory posits

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that if you put art up in a space that's experiencing graffiti that you won't have

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that problem anymore. So we did that with our mural of outline and 30 didn't

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have a problem. So we're going to do it again here. A grant from the National

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Endowment for the Arts is helping pay for the mosaic. It could be finished

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within a few days.