Landscape architecture student Ariana Arenius and recent graduates Dillon McDowell and Nita Wareechatchai spent their summer working on the mural, painstakingly dabbing and scraping paint across the wall to create varying textures.
“We have snail energy,” Wareechatchai said. “But I love looking at these colors every day.”
Like much of Iliescu’s work, the mural – titled “The Rosy Fingered Dawn” – exists somewhere between art and architecture. The students who worked on the mural appreciate that.