Pop artist creates digital mosaic of coronavirus healthcare workers

They’re the faces of the frontline.

An artist collected photographs from healthcare workers throughout the UK to create a surprising digital collage of a nurse in scrubs and a face masks with the phrases “THANK YOU.”

Pop artist Nathan Wyburn, 30, of South Wales, mentioned he created the picture as a small gesture of appreciation for the workers within the UK’s Nationwide Well being Service battling the coronavirus pandemic.

“I’ve pals who’re nurses and docs — they’re anxious because the hospitals are rife with coronavirus however they nonetheless proceed to work,” he mentioned in a press release. “I created the digital collage to indicate we’re all on this collectively.”

Wyburn had put out a request on Fb for photographs from medical professionals for the undertaking and obtained a flood of selfies, headshots and different group photographs from workers get-togethers.

A video of his collage garnered greater than 31,000 views on Twitter.

“I wished to do one thing to indicate how a lot I recognize the NHS throughout this unsure time,” he mentioned.