Street art · London
Photo: Mathew Attlee, CC BY-SA 4.0
Unsung Heroes of Hackney
By Hackney Mosaic Project
This tessera mosaic quotes poet Lemn Sissay's line "the sun said to the moon... we have more in common than sets us apart" beneath tiled scenes of food bank volunteers and key workers honoring Hackney's pandemic-era community heroes.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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