Covid memorial in London

This is the National Covid Memorial Wall on London’s Southbank. A heart-shaped 💗 ❤️ 💕 visual coding of collective mourning governed, of course, by specific rules of conduct (one *little* heart per person). After all, maintaining a civilised and orderly surface environment is as important here as anywhere else.

It is significant that this memorial has multiple authorship, although it is led by a single set of design and contribution rules. It will be interesting to see how it is maintained and preserved as the years go by, and how it can potentially open some doors to valuing collectively-authored surface markings which do not respond to single agendas of contribution.

The site has a 4.7 ⭐️ rating on Google under “Memorial parks” and a separate initiative was started right across from it, for a London knife crime memorial. This one did not make it to Google yet.