Natalia Rak
‘The Legend of Giants’ is a painted mural by Natalia Rak, painted in 2013. Painted as part of the ‘Folk on the street festival’, Natalia painted a mural based solely on the place where it was based.
For this painting, Rak took into consideration the location of this painting being in Bialystok, Poland where there was a tale of giants that used to roam in that area. It was explained that the giants would copy human behaviour and take care of nature. With this knowledge, she painted a large painting of a girl (giant) caring for a tree that is actually growing in front of the mural. This doesn’t only take into considering the location, but looks at the place of the mural and what surrounds it, for example, the tree that she uses to complete her artwork.