This is the second time I have seen this in three weeks.

It is a call to arms.

The first time, I saw it was in the zine for Migrants, Didactic Wall by Irfan Hosic And then again in the Hong Kong writings by Critic Yang Yeung.

As quoted in an article in Freeze The Fight for Hong Kong Is Not Over

Link below.

By HERA CHAN

Hera Chan is a writer and curator based in Hong Kong. She co-founded Atelier Céladon in Montreal, Canada

https://frieze.com/article/fight-hong-kong-not-over

Dear all, who make art and make art happen,

It had happened before. It is happening again and it may well happen over and again that we are challenged to suspend what we do in art, with art, for art, and as art, to ‘join the protest’. The act of putting everything in our hands down and changing their orientation, to wrap elbows around each other and march on, is beautiful, compelling, and in critical times, urgent and necessary. I am writing this letter not to dispute that. Not at all. I am here to make the case that we don’t have to lay art down in order to protest. We can do both at the same time. In fact, we must