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Collected Item: “Wear a Damn Mask”

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Wear a Damn Mask

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Instagram

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.

#WEARADAMNMASK

So excited to finally share the finished image for #GigiJournalPartII @vmagazine , which is officially on select newssstands! (Link in bio to order online) I couldn’t be more proud to be part of this very special publication, guest edited and creative directed by @gigihadid 💙 

A month and a half ago while working on this, I never thought that at the time of the journal’s publication, cases in the US would be surging in 41 states and that hospitals would be swelling. For those who continue to resist precautionary measures and try to argue that the threat of this virus is false, I have family working in an ER full of COVID patients in Tennessee right now, and can promise you this is very real. So please, wear a fucking mask and wash your hands! It’s the absolute least we can do.  

Thank you to all the essential workers, who now 4 months in, are continuing to risk their lives by going to work every day. This work is in honour if you 💙

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mask, art, plaster, pandemic art, Gigi Journal, magazine, mask, USA, virus, Tennessee, essential workers, Visual Art, ASU, HST580

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrFFL4pYny/

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

Misha Japanwala

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2020-07-15
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