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Argentina-born/Valencia-based international street artist Hyuro (born Tamara Djurovic) was known for large-scale, often faceless figures, performing seemingly mundane or everyday actions at a grand scale and painted in subdued, naturalistic tones that are in compositional conversation with the structures they are painted on. Hyuro stated, in an interview with Juxtapoz Magazine, “In the end, if you don’t show time or you don’t show faces, you give more space to the viewer to finish the piece in their own mind, within their own beliefs. It doesn’t close off anything for the viewer, it doesn’t have to be this person. It keeps it open to interpretation. I just give my contribution to a place, and people can finish the meaning themselves.” In November 2020, just a year after completing this piece in Kingston, Hyuro died of leukemia at the age of 45. O+ feels honored and fortunate to have one of her final works here in Kingston as a gift to our community and in memoriam to her incredible life’s work.