As tourists pull into the Fullerton station on the Red, Purple and Brown Lines, they’re greeted by a friendly face peering down upon Wish Field that’s often confused for a plethora of different figures. It’s the Pope, right? DePaul is a Catholic campus after all. Not the Pope? Maybe Willie Nelson? Or Jacques Cousteau?
These are just a few of the people Brother Mark Elder has heard over the last 13 years as to who is painted along the side of McCabe Hall. But it’s neither the Pope, Nelson nor Cousteau. The answer is even more obvious. It’s St. Vincent DePaul, and Elder is the man who created the 68-foot mural titled “We Are DePaul2″ is made completely of a series of rubber stamp portraits of faculty, students and staff members at the university.
“What you’re looking at is a huge paint- by-number,” Elder said. “There are just five tones, so literally you can take this rubber stamp, take a little paint put it on a glass palette and you pile them up into a tone, and you go from one section to another.”
While “We Are