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Collected Item: “Pandemic Street Art: Amanda Newman mural of Ai Fen”

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Pandemic Street Art: Amanda Newman mural of Ai Fen

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Image

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.

Artist Amanda Newman created a mural of senior Doctor Ai Fen if the Wuhan Central Hospital. The image is on a pillar of a railway overpass in Urquhart Street, Northcote. Newman chose the doctor as her subject because she was silenced, reprimanded, and accused of spreading rumors during the beginning stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in December 2019.

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Wuhan, China, Victoria, Australia, HST580, ASU, artist, pandemic street art, mural, mask, doctor, frontline

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CFk44PjjLPI/

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

Amanda Newman

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2020-05
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