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Collected Item: “"To all the essential workers of B.C. Gracias" mural”

Give your story a title.

"To all the essential workers of B.C. Gracias" mural

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

photograph / mural

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

A mural by an unknown artist in Vancouver depicting two women in surgical masks with head/hair coverings surrounded by small blue birds with a small message on its left side which reads "to all the essential workers of B.C. Gracias"

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

art, mural, mask, essential worker

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-coronavirus-update-bcs-pandemic-lockdown-is-relaxing-but-front/#c-image-0

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

photograph: Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press mural: unknown

Give this story a date.

2020-07-12
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