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Collected Item: “Coronaland: 200-block of Dauphine”

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Coronaland

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A photo I took

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200-block of Dauphine, "Sun" by Anonymous, part of Plywood Project NOLA

So I asked if I could take his photo and he seemed to agree (it was a bit hard to understand him since he was wearing a mask, not to prevent against COVID (well, that too) but against the paint fumes) and he posed like that. I asked him if he wanted to turn around and he replied “I prefer to remain anonymous.”

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Brian Sands

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2020-05-16
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