Roosevelt Community Church Analysis

The mural on the side of Roosevelt Community Church depicts a man with his arms spread wide like an eagle. This mural is beautiful but very confusing. It is a man without skin whose arms are spread wide, since there is no skin passerby’s can see are muscles bones and tendons. When I first saw the mural I thought to myself, “what the heck could this possibly stand for?” I sat there staring at the mural and after about ten to fifteen minutes I still just sat there dumbfounded as to what the mural could stand for. After trying to figure out what the heck the mural was, I stopped analyzing it and instead I started to analyze the area around the mural. In order to begin to understand the message or the mural everything around it must be analyzed by means of color, symbols, and location.
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Quadrant one consists of the head and neck region of the mural. In this quadrant you see half of a face. The face only goes up as far to see the nostrils of the man. The man’s head is tilted backwards and there are blue and white hexagons coming out of the top half of the head. The face of the man is muscle and if you look at the next you see the muscle striations in the neck. Lastly you’ll notice that the muscles on the neck go into as much detail as showing us the muscle striations in the neck. Quadrant two consists of the torso and chest of the man in the mural. In this quadrant you see the chest and torso. The chest consists entirely of muscle, and collarbones. In the torso of the man you see no muscle or skin only the spine and ribs along with a little bit of blue where the ribs are. Quadrant Three and Four consist of the arms. On both arms of the man you see bones, tendons and muscles. One of the most interesting parts about the mural is that both arms are reflections of each other meaning that the look exactly the same just