Four Masks and a Funeral https://theamericanscholar.org/four-masks-and-a-funeral/#.YHHMgZbQvqk.twitter "The first time I wrote about masks, it had nothing to do with an epidemic.
Late in 2016, some artists in Chengdu were angry about local air pollution [so they] put surgical masks on public statues..."

"The second time I wrote about masks, my focus was again on art & dissent."--this time in Hong Kong [from "Four Masks and a Funeral," my latest (note: the Chengdu piece I mention at the essay's start was co-written w/ @benfuzi & edited by @HannahBloch https://www.npr.org/2017/01/18/510127554/in-china-pollution-fears-are-both-literal-and-metaphorical)

My essay for @TheAmScho (that was much improved by the edits of Robert Wilson and Bruce Falconer there), "Four Masks and a Funeral," ends with a discussion of a vigil (the funeral of the title) held in Hong Kong December 13, 2019, a photo from it here

Finishing up this thread on my latest piece, I mention & quote from an @AgeofRevs post I wrote; the link to that is https://ageofrevolutions.com/2020/05/04/fiction-films-and-the-hong-kong-protests-of-2014-2019-three-vignettes/ & here are three December 8, 2019, photos that complement the piece