The Rosy Fingered Dawn
A Mural for the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia
The title of this permanent mural—The Rosy Fingered Dawn—references a phrase that Homer uses repeatedly in his Iliad and Odyssey to describe the beginning of a new day. The mural, which I completed on August 11, 2023, with the help of three students—Ariana Arenius, Dillon Laurie McDowell, and Nita Wareechatchai—brings dawn’s rosy colors to Campbell Hall, a building that is otherwise dominated by gray, black, and brown hues. The mural’s thirty inclined “dancing lines” show all the colors of the rainbow and signify the openness, diversity, and inclusiveness to which the Architecture School community aspires. Their backgrounds—a series of vivid yet highly nuanced pinks—are intended to contrast with other colors in the building and suggest joy and hope in a proudly feminine register.
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