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"There's an intense beauty in the experience of living in Toronto that I hope the viewers recognize in the work," says Francisco-Fernando Granados, a PhD student at the University of Toronto.
Granados, who came to Canada from Guatemala as a teen and settled in Toronto with his family in 2001, has been working on a public art proposal for the city's Bay Station since last summer, reports the Toronto Star.
His " confluence"a mosaic that will cover the walls and ceiling of the station's entranceis "a meditation on the past, present, and future of the city as a place where people from many nations arrive to find new forms of belonging," per ART+PUB.
"I came to Canada as a refugee from Guatemala when I was a teenager," Granados tells the CBC.
"My family and I settled on the other side of the country.
Watching the city from there, Toronto always seemed like a place of convergence for people and ideas.
A place where being queer or a migrant was not strange, but simply part of the reality and history of the place."
The project, which will be paid for with private funds, was one of five selected by the Toronto Transit Commission to be installed along the city's subway Read the Entire Article
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