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Big Picture Fest Newcastle director Katerina Skoumbas on the work of street artist Goya Torres.

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00:00 Beautiful, thank you so much.

00:05 I'm standing in front of Goya Torres' work that she did for the Big Picture Fest in 2022.

00:10 This is drenched in Mexican culture.

00:13 Goya Torres moved to Australia not that long ago and so in this she really wanted to depict

00:20 some of the native faces that really reflects her Mexican heritage.

00:27 And on top of the native faces are their totem animals.

00:30 You can see each of them have a different animal on their head.

00:35 And essentially these faces are that of children and the innocence with nature, the connection

00:42 to nature, I think is what's really powerful about this piece.

00:45 space.