The Traveling Man

The Traveling Man is a series of three metal sculptures depicting robots accompanied by birds in the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas.

Made of brushed and polished sheets of stainless steel held together with rivets, the sculptures were a collaboration between sculptor Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg of Reel FX Creative Studios.

The Traveling Man is a series of three metal sculptures depicting robots accompanied by birds in the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas.

[4] The Traveling Man is intended to be evocative of both the history of rail transportation in Deep Ellum and its more recent development as an artistic community.

[1][6] This sculpture is sitting and leaning against a piece of concrete debris that was recovered from an old railroad tunnel in Deep Ellum.

[4] The third of the three sculptures, Walking Tall, is 38 feet (12 m) in height, weighs 35,000 pounds (16,000 kg), and is located next to DART light rail's Deep Ellum station.