Ben Nelms

As Vancouver enters Week 2&nbsp;of a city-wide shutdown of restaurants and businesses, public art and graffiti are surfacing around the city in response to COVID-19. Messages of cleanliness and hope are mixed with support for front-line health-care workers. The messages on public property are quick to disappear but offer a fleeting moment of how some people are feeling during the pandemic.

A statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns is pictured wearing a protective mask in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, March 27, 2020. 

COVID-19 GRAFFITI & SIGNS

A man adjusts a sign supporting health care workers in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, March 26, 2020. 

The No 5 Orange strip club displays a sign promoting hope  in Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, March 27, 2020. 

Spokes bicycle rentals store displays a sign on their front door in Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, March 27, 2020. 

A man walks past a sign erected on a fence near Strathcona Park in Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, March 27, 2020. 

Four-year-old Presley Muir and six-year-old Scotia Muir stand in front of a chalk sign they drew in support of Lynn Valley's efforts to fight COVID-19.

LYNN VALLEY CARE

A man power washes chalk messages away on a sidewalk in front of a closed bank in Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, March 26, 2020. 

A statue in Coal Harbours Devonian Harbour Park is pictured with flowers in her hand in Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, March 26, 2020. 

Signs supporting health care workers are pictured taped to trees in Tour Lake in Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, March 26, 2020. 

Two men stand near a sign near St. Paul’s Hospital in  Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, March 26, 2020. 

Park theatre displays a sign on its billboard in Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, March 27, 2020. 

A woman walks past graffiti in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. 

COVID ST. PATRICKS DAY

Signs supporting health care workers are pictured in Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, March 26, 2020. 

A man takes a photo of graffiti on Powell Street under Clark Drive in Vancouver on Thursday.

Signs of the times spread messages of hope and support amid COVID-19 pandemic

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