A beautiful new mural dedicated to all those who lost their lives due to Covid-19 has been unveiled in Dublin.
The touching tribute is featured on the side wall of the AIB building on O'Connell street.
The Hugh Lane Gallery collaborated with the renowned street artist Asbestos to complete the project.
The ¨Pass Freely¨ mural features a figure made of painted burnt matches, with each one representing one of the people who have tragically died from Covid -19.
The mural will continue to be updated with more matches until the pandemic comes to an end.
Asbestos, the artist who created the mural, said: “The mural shows a figure made up of nearly 5000 individually drawn burnt matches.
¨Each match represents the life of a person who has passed away in Ireland during the Covid pandemic, each extinguished at a different stage of existence.
¨Each life cut short, along with their hopes, ambitions and the memories.
¨Over a 10 day period I painted each match and after each match was finished I repeated the quote from Joseph Beuys “pass freely from one level of existence to another”.¨
That same quote from Joseph Beuys is featured on the hoarding.
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