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And we will start talking about our name, which is always one of the questions, because it's a real name, and then we have the apostrophe and the asterisk, and it's hard to remember, but anyhow, I will let Liana to talk a little bit about that. And yeah, thanks. Since we're collective, it's going to be a bit of back and forth, organic kind of talk. So our name, as many of you might know, is BATS in Mayan, and we chose this name because when BATS arrived to a new place for an extended period of time, they hang on to one another and form clusters, and in a way we see that's what we're doing. We're a small cluster of artists within the larger art community, and we're also a small group of Latinos within the larger Toronto community. And we also They're winged mammals, and they also are associated with both light and dark aspects. So in Western culture, a lot of the associations are dark, with Halloween, with vampires, They associated BATS with dreaming, with intuition, and with vision. They were also associated with the scribes. So the people who wrote down the histories for the Mayans were thought to be transported to the underworld by the BATS, and then the BATS would show them the God's destinies and the God's plans. The scribes would come back to Earth, and they would write down in the codices all of these things that they learned in the underworld. So they had a really strong connection with the Mayan culture. And we also
