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[0:01] A new city art project is taking shape on Interstate 30 in Grand Prairie.
[0:07] A tile mosaic
[0:08] is being installed on two sides of this retaining wall near the freeway. The tiles are made from
[0:14] recycled glass and are fabricated in sheets. The sheets are numbered according to a template
[0:20] that workers use to put the sheets in the right place on the wall. Eventually, they'll
[0:25] form a 233 foot long ribbon of colors and patterns based on a prairie thing.
[0:31] The grasses are pretty neutral but depending on the time of the year that you see them,
[0:38] they change, they get yellow or they get orange with the end of the summer and of course
[0:44] the blue bonnets are beautiful in the spring but what really helped my whole design come
[0:52] together was the gradation from, I'm calling the morning sun all the way into the evening
[1:02] night. City officials believe the artwork will brighten up the drive for commuters
[1:07] and stop graffiti vandals from using the site. And the broken window theory posits
[1:13] that if you put art up in a space that's experiencing graffiti that you won't have
[1:18] that problem anymore. So we did that with our mural of outline and 30 didn't
[1:22] have a problem. So we're going to do it again here. A grant from the National
[1:25] Endowment for the Arts is helping pay for the mosaic. It could be finished
[1:29] within a few days.