DaVida Sal's Mask Bikini Photographs

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About

DaVida Sal's Mask Bikini Photographs is an image macro series featuring images of artist DaVida Sal wearing a bikini made of medical masks as a form of protest against the coronavirus quarantine.

Origin

On May 22nd, 2020, artist DaVida Sal posted a series of photographs of herself wearing a bikini made of masks on Facebook. ^[1] They captioned the photographs, "'The New AbNormal' Abnormal Becoming the New Normal. She blindly obeyed. My new #artivism since last time I was behind the camera with my super Artivist siSTAR twin Julianne ❤️🔥🙏🥕💪. If the MASKS work, WHY the 6 feet? If the 6 feet works, WHY the Masks? If BOTH work, WHY the LOCKDOWN? 🤪🤪🤪Please share your thoughts about the meaning of these images, what are they representing for you. We would like to hear from all of you. Now more than ever we must express ourselves with the brilliance we were created to be."

The post received more than 21,000 comments, 16,000 shares and 13,000 reactions in less than one week (shown below).

Spread

Following the posts, others began sharing the photographs online. For example, on May 23rd, Twitter^[4] @nemui_babyy tweeted the photographs with the caption^[2] "Can people just wear the damn mask instead of making it a sad performance art project." The post received more than 73,000 likes and 14,000 retweets in less than one week (shown below, left). On May 24th, Twitter user @kallllisti posted the images with the caption, "This kinda shit is the only reason I keep Facebook" (shown below, center). Meme account @incellectuals posted a series of the images on Instagram. ^[3] The most popular one received more than 1,400 likes in less than two days (shown below, right).

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