Encanto Central Metro Light Rail Station Next To The Heard Museum, Regency, Tapestry and Willo Historic

The Encanto & Central Avenue Station is surrounded by plenty of residential neighborhood and high-rises.  

The Art

"The Encanto station lies directly in front of the Heard Museum and in the historic Willo Neighborhood.

Brothers Jamex and Einar de la Torre, who travel back and forth between their studios in Mexico and California, worked with a mix of pre-Columbian Indian and modern cultural motifs. The mix or “mestizaje” of cultures is part of their continuing work as artists living in the border region.

The artwork at the station also reflects their research in the local community for visual landmarks that resonate with their personal aesthetic.Two carved canterra stone walls crest the entrance planters, flowing across the entire length of the entry way.

The imagery evokes a surrealistic desert landscape mixed with pre-Columbian motifs and ruins of Greco-Roman columns.In the station itself, the rider will find rotating bronze boxes with narrative glyphs in the place of louvers; turn them to create a changing sequence of pictorial sentences.

The format of the images is mainly inspired by Mayan glyphs while the imagery itself is a mix of North American Indian and modern and local images.Finally, sheltered within the trellis panels and surrounded by greenery is a bronze sculpture, a modern version of the intricate and regal Mayan sculptures from Copan. Look carefully at the details here." (Metro Art Book)