Graffiti and its ancillary forms have been used for a wide variety of purposes including ornamentation, territorial demarcation, commercial announcements and political contestation. This visual essay takes up Lyman Chaffee’s notion that graffiti can constitute an alternative media system that offers a glimpse into emerging and evolving political discourses. Using ‘walking-as-method’ in a north London neighbourhood, it surveys the array of political graffiti produced in the context of the UK’s first wave of Covid-19 and accompanying period of lockdown. In so doing, it presents a visual chronology of shifting popular opinion on the British state’s handling of the pandemic and illuminates the ways that the politics of pandemic management has intersected with other national and local concerns, from the resourcing of public services to the Black Lives Matter campaign.

涂鸦及其辅助形式已被用于各种各样的目的，包括装饰、领土划分、商业公告和政治争论。这篇视觉文章采用了 Lyman Chaffee 的观点，即涂鸦可以构成一种替代媒体系统，让人们可以一瞥新兴和不断发展的政治话语。它在伦敦北部的一个街区使用“步行法”，调查了​​在英国第一波 Covid-19 浪潮和随之而来的封锁期间产生的一系列政治涂鸦。这样做时，它呈现了人们对英国政府处理大流行病的流行观点转变的视觉年表，并阐明了大流行病管理政治与其他国家和地方关注的交叉方式，