Editor Note: The video above From the previous coverage that was broadcast on KXan on August 25.
ASAN-The concrete barriers have increased along the sixth street recently, as part of the efforts of the Austin Police Department to prevent crowds late at night from gathering in the street or outside companies since the road opened a reserve for cars during the weekend.
These barriers filled with water that rose for about four months have come, and they are now the third type of infrastructure that the city has used since it opened the street to full -time car movement in January.
“After installing water -filled barriers on the sixth street, we heard the business owners that the area felt a lot on the construction site, so the city chose to turn into concrete barriers,” the city previously told KXan in the email statement.
The barriers were drawn by local artist Emily Eisenhart. She said she applied to an open request for the proposal and was chosen to draw the barricades as part of a beauty voltage before Downtown Austin alliance and General improvement area in the east of the sixth street.
“They have chosen my work, I think, because of its abstract nature and its ability to tell the stories,” said Eisenhart. “I am always inspired. I have already studied anthropology, so I am a training researcher, and I always walk on the site and talk to people, and so on, many of the forms and decorations that you see here honor the history of this field, musical influences, and all different companies.”
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The artist Emily Eisenhart drew concrete barriers, which are now along the sixth street of Nichis to Saint -Jacinto. (KXan Photo/Abigail Jones) -
The artist Emily Eisenhart drew concrete barriers, which are now along the sixth street of Nichis to Saint -Jacinto. (KXan Photo/Abigail Jones) -
The artist Emily Eisenhart drew concrete barriers, which are now along the sixth street of Nichis to Saint -Jacinto. (KXan Photo/Abigail Jones) -
The artist Emily Eisenhart drew concrete barriers, which are now along the sixth street of Nichis to Saint -Jacinto. (KXan Photo/Abigail Jones)
“You will see architectural elements such as corridors or circles such as faces, such as Suns, Moitar Strings, or Symhouets of Musical Excloy, even small -sized buildings on buildings,” Eisenhart added.
Iznhart said that she oversees her choice and to be part of the city center of Austin through her art, and she is grateful because the city’s entities are concerned with creativity and cultural efforts that make Austin “more dynamic”.
“What I love in art in the public world is that people can take and take pictures. They can see it from afar and watch a new idea. It can receive them in broad daylight or nightlife, and this depends on that when they are here.
Iznhart is managing its own studio in Austin for a period of 10 years, and said that she often cooperates with developers, architects and community organizations to bring artworks to the urban field.
I explained the inspiration behind some elements in the mural.
“All colors in this mural, for me, speak to Austin,” said Eisenhart. “We have green spaces for all our vegetable lives and live oak trees, and the limestone generous around you, red bricks – this is all the courtyards and signs here. Yellow, for me, resembles warm sun. There, of course, this blue paragraph of Barton Springs and Big Texas Sky.”
Eisenhardt said that the artwork was closed to an anti -wind leakage to help extend its longevity.
Priyana Holis contributed to this story.