This mural is located on the second floor of Ledwidge Hall, a resident building located at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. This project was created as part of a course taught in the winter semester of 2017, Murals as Placemakers. 

In the context of a residential hall occupied by university students, I decided to create a design that was active and showcased a lot of variety, alluding to the diversity of the student body. The idea was that as people go in and out of the stairwell and pass this mural on a routinely basis, then they'll start to pick up on certain small details and perhaps associate with a specific image or multiple. I also wanted to make sure the mural would look great during the day and at night, with the vibrancy and details working with the state of perception students would be in in the morning versus at night, perhaps exhausted and coming back from practice or a night class. Of the students that passed me by while I was working on it, many of them liked the egg, pizza, and donut. A year later, more people put their attention on and liked the silhouetted figure at the top of the design, which I thought was interesting. 

Here I designed the 8.5” x 11” poster put on the doors of the staircase to indicate the in progress work. I utilized Futura alongside rectangles of magenta, blue, and yellow. The message is immediate, and the style communicates something modern and creative.