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'We all survived': Wuhan artists keep coronavirus memories alive
- 'Speak righteously' -But graffiti artist Huang Bowen tries to keep the memories alive.Huang, a self-taught 22-year-old designer, tagged the city with virus-themed graffiti during the lockdown, using a pass gained as a pandemic volunteer to evade restrictions on moving around what had become a ghost town.Huang's subjects have included ophthalmologist Li Wenliang, one of several Wuhan doctors who first warned of the spreading contagion in December 2019 and were told by authorities to keep quiet.Li later died of the virus.Politically sensitive art is taboo in tightly controlled China.As with nearly all his pandemic graffiti, Huang's homage to Li -- the phrase "Speak righteously and remember this forever" spray-painted on the walls of the