CREATIONS Object DART

TAKE $70,000, 25 TONS OF limestone, and an artist with a flair for bringing boulders to life, and what do you have? A towering sculpture for one of DART’s new light rail stations in Oak Cliff. The piece, which is reminiscent of a Mayan pyramid, is being sculpted outdoors behind the LA Thompson Gallery at 2714 McKinney Avenue. It should be completed this month.

Dallas artist Eliseo, who won a national competition for the honot of doing the piece, says he has a passion for expressing Hispanic heritage along with universal themes of family and life.

His fout panels depict the universal family, the celebration of life, the Aztec symbol of an eagle with a male torso, and the struggle of life-a fitting subject for DART, which has grappled with everything from a failed bond election to a problem with excavating prehistoric insects and the relocation of bodies from a historic slave graveyard.