Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles has shown respect to the front-line workers by displaying ads subways and in Times Square, with the message, “Thank you for keeping NYC alive! for -> forever..”
She claimed, “I didn’t say ‘Thank you for keeping New York City clean,’ because that’s their job,” “I said ‘alive,’ because the city, I felt, was in peril, and what they’re about is beyond that, way beyond that. It’s about this flow, keeping, maintaining. It’s never-ending.”
Ukeles acknowledges front-line workers for their work during this pandemic, which people may take as granted, that they are putting themselves in higher risks and danger in order to preserve the city “alive”.
