United in Wellness
Community Mural
United in Wellness is a 30 ft site- specific mural by artist Sarah Chang, in collaboration with CSU- Paul Robeson Community Wellness Center.
The powerful portrait of political rights activist, actor, singer, and professional athlete, Paul Robeson, centers the mural, against a backdrop of a surreal sky, anchored by a bright garden of vegetables. While the carrots, ginger and lavender represents wellness properties of herbs and nutrition, the heirloom tomato that was named in honor of him for his artist community ties in Russia, along with the collard greens, celebrate the community the wellness center serves.
One of the main inspirations for this mural comes from the icon’s humanitarian beliefs of Unity through communication, and his fluency in multiple different languages. The artist visually repeats the word Solidarity in different languages in her signature word rays, and deliberately places them at mind, eyes and mouth level, while the lavender and vegetables are composed to resemble a crown of olive leaves around the 20th century Renaissance Man, for his famed Shakespearean role in Othello.
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