San Antonio’s Cardi B mural gets a coronavirus makeover and a shout-out from the rapper
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A mural of Cardi B sports a mask in response to the coronavirus threat, Monday, March 30, 2020. The mask was placed by the mural’s artist Colton Valentine. The mural is located at the 800 block of San Pedro Avenue.
A mural of Cardi B sports a mask in response to the coronavirus threat, Monday, March 30, 2020. The mask was placed by the mural’s artist Colton Valentine. The mural is located at the 800 block of San Pedro
Photo: Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News
A mural of Cardi B sports a mask in response to the coronavirus threat, Monday, March 30, 2020. The mask was placed by the mural’s artist Colton Valentine. The mural is located at the 800 block of San Pedro Avenue.
A mural of Cardi B sports a mask in response to the coronavirus threat, Monday, March 30, 2020. The mask was placed by the mural’s artist Colton Valentine. The mural is located at the 800 block of San Pedro
Photo: Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News
A Cardi B mural in San Antonio got a shout-out from the popular rapper after the downtown painting got a coronavirus-inspired makeover.
Last week, Cardi B took to Instagram wearing a face mask to tell people to take the coronavirus seriously and stay home. So, creator Colton Valentine decided to paint new touches on his mural of Cardi B by adding a mask to her portrait.
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“I was just thinking about her video and it just clicked for me that I had to put a mask on (the mural),” Valentine said.
Though, the addition took less than an hour for Valentine to do, its impact is already spreading. Within two hours of Valentine posting the revised mural on his Instagram account, Cardi B had reposted it on her account’s story.
“Wow this is amazing, I appreciate the love. This makes me sooo happy,” the rapper wrote in her story.
“I have gotten some messages from people thanking me for doing that because it is making people more aware of what’s going on,” Valentine said.
He said after doing research about the coronavirus, he just hopes people will take to the message and recognize the severity of the pandemic.
“I didn’t realize that doing this could actually make a small impact to the community to get people to take this seriously and to me, that is amazing,” Valentine said. “I know some people who aren’t taking this seriously and think that it is just going to pass quickly.”
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“People need to keep clean and help protect against the spread,” he added.
The Cardi B mural, which sits at 802 San Pedro Avenue, has been up since last March and Valentine questioned whether it was a good idea to alter the painting or not.
“I was worried that I was going to ruin it and I was worried the city was going to get mad at me,” he said. “But I just had this deep intuition that it was just something that I had to do.”
Taylor Pettaway is a breaking news reporter and general assignment writer. Read her on our breaking news site, MySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com | [email protected] | @TaylorPettaway
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