The mural incorporates different themes and elements that were recurrent in the student’s drawings : Space, fruit, flowers, and animals (birds, specifically). The group talked a lot about the world we see everyday around them, and also the vastness of the world that we imagine. They talked about feelings and how they can’t see them but they can express them through art. The mural reflects both the concrete, tangible and and imaginative nature of our class. They wanted to illustrate an environment that is very down to earth, but at the same time, dreaming big and above the clouds. The landscape of this mural is about the power of introspection and introversion, and is an invitation to find harmony and peace in the fruits of your own labor and dreams, and then extend those fruits outward to the people in your life, in your community and in the world. It is about the beauty of balance, and how amazing things could be.
