Healing wall

DMM-2022-00141

Healing wall

Freddy Diaz [SW Freddy]

Phil

Christopher Yepez [Sacramento Knoxx] [facilitator of project]

Created: 2015
Photographed: 2023-08-18

AAT:
times of day
seasons
houses
clouds
sky
tree of life (general motif)

LCSH:
Mural painting and decoration, American--Michigan--Detroit--21st Century.
Community arts projects--Michigan--Detroit.

This mural, painted on the side elevation of a building, consists of a large tree in a hilly landscape containing several small houses. The tree is large and has human elements and appears to be seated cross-legged on the ground atop a small hill with its arms outstretched. Its root-legs cover the hill and go into the area beneath the wall. At the tree top, on the viewer's left, are brown and orange-brown leaves, some of which fall from the branches and blow off to the left. On the right the leaves are green and some fall from the branches and blow off to the right. The two sides show different times of day (L: night & R: day) and seasons (L: fall & R: summer). In the hilly landscape flanking the tree are quaint cottages painted white among a few small trees. The cottages of each side are connected by a series of telephone poles and wires. The sky on both sides is filled with clouds, and on the left stars twinkle. In the foreground before each cottage are what appear to be cut-away areas showing stylized roots amid gravel and dirt. The concept of transition / change are suggested by the mural. Signed in white paint in the upper right corner "Freddy / Phil".

Still Image

Address: 1725 Lawndale St, Detroit, MI 48209
Coordinates: 42.30567232318564, -83.1302403949363

Grace in Action Church [structure], formally Mortenson Funeral Home

The Smiling Flower [multimedia work from 2015 by Sacramento Knoxx speaking about the dualities of life / death] https://kresgeartsindetroit.org/artist/sacramento-knoxx/

Healing wall at grace in action. (2015, October 20). Inside Southwest Detroit. Retrieved November 3, 2023, from https://www.insidesouthwest.com/iswdprogramming/the-healing-wall-at-grace-in-action-is-a-mural

spray paint on cinder block