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Collected Item: “POTUS45 COVID19”

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POTUS45 COVID19

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A1 street art paste-ups of image mosaics of infamous POTUS45 photos comprised of 494 graphical images of the Coronavirus scraped from the webbetween March and June 2020..

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As an Australian who has traveled extensively in the US and who has met many kind and generous people over the years, watching America being ravaged by the virus in those early months was horrifying. Especially my beloved NYC. This was compounded by the incompetence and wilful neglect of the Trump administration. And so, this project - the visual smashing together of two mediated narratives POTUS45 and COVID19 - began out of rage in April of 2020 when the death count had (only) reached 100,000. Pasting up these posters across the streets of Melbourne - in a time of helplessness, of lock-downs, of isolation and of global death counts - felt cathartic. It won't of course bring back the dead or heal the suffering of the long haulers, but it was a physical act of artistic expression and global solidarity.

That was a year ago, POTUS45 is gone (for now), but the cost of his administration's negligence is represented in the statistics of April 2021 that were unfathomable a year ago.

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POTUS45, COVID19, Melbourne, street art, paste up, ISO-Mosaic, QR Code,

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https://potus45covid19.com/

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Mitch Goodwin

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2020-04-01
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