Coronavirus pandemic in Graffiti: Emotional reality - CGTN

Graffiti turns a surface in the concrete jungle into an interface between reality and dream. This twisting power of the urban painting genre seems more than fit to depict the terror, panic, sorrow, void and sometimes hopefulness sewn by the coronavirus pandemic, that have come back and forth gripping the world.

A graffiti depicting the character Gollum from "Lord of the Rings," saying "My precious," and Scrat from "Ice Age" holding a roll of toilet paper is painted on a wall in the Mauerpark, a public park at the district Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, Germany, April 15, 2020. /AP

A graffiti depicting the character Gollum from "Lord of the Rings," saying "My precious," and Scrat from "Ice Age" holding a roll of toilet paper is painted on a wall in the Mauerpark, a public park at the district Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, Germany, April 15, 2020. /AP

Coronavirus-related graffiti under an overpass in San Antonio, U.S., April 16, 2020. /AP

Coronavirus-related graffiti under an overpass in San Antonio, U.S., April 16, 2020. /AP

A painting by street artist C215 in Ivry-sur-Seine, outside Paris, France, March 19, 2020. /AP

A painting by street artist C215 in Ivry-sur-Seine, outside Paris, France, March 19, 2020. /AP

A mural painted on a bordered up business closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas, U.S., April 27, 2020. /AP

A mural painted on a bordered up business closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas, U.S., April 27, 2020. /AP

An informational mural depicting the new coronavirus and warning people to sanitize to prevent its spread, painted by graffiti artists from the Mathare Roots youth group, in the Mathare informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya, April 22, 2020. /AP

An informational mural depicting the new coronavirus and warning people to sanitize to prevent its spread, painted by graffiti artists from the Mathare Roots youth group, in the Mathare informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya, April 22, 2020. /AP

A mural of a nurse painted on a building on East Colfax Avenue as efforts to contain the new coronavirus continue, in Denver, U.S., April 15, 2020. /AP

A mural of a nurse painted on a building on East Colfax Avenue as efforts to contain the new coronavirus continue, in Denver, U.S., April 15, 2020. /AP