Nature PunkArtist zack mennell caught Weil’s disease while doing a performance art piece on dirty water. That's commitment.
Also noted is The Guardian's commitment to using the artists preference to an all lower case name (as somebody who stylizes their name as sparkes in online circles frequently I know how odd it looks with the wrong capitalisation) and their they/them pronouns.
Considering some of the editorials over the last 20 years that's worth celebrating.
#waterpollution
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/09/artist-24-nappies-sewage-pollution-zack-mennell
‘The smell wasn’t healthy’: the artist who wore 24 nappies to highlight sewage pollution – and fell ill
zack mennell made a costume out of nappies and waded into filthy waterways saying: ‘I’m going to be the parasite.’ The performance artist’s project became more literal than originally intended