Garrick Marchena from Curacao’s has his roots in Hip Hop and graffiti. In November 2019, Garrick spent a few weeks on the island where his father was born and raised. When looking for walls to put some ‘clandestine’ art on, he ended up here in kaya General C.M. Piar. Reading the name of the street and seeing the old canon that still stands there, he realized he was looking at the now rundown, but once beautiful, old family house of his father. And opposite the house a perfect wall to paint. As if it was meant to be.

The portrait of the woman is accompanied by Marchena’s signature style of writing and fittingly reads '“Kòrda nos Rais”, which translates to: remember your roots.

The portrait he used is the same as one of his first clandestine female portraits he painted in 2011. The flower next to her is that of the Wayaka tree of which the island once was full and the green symbols next to the lettering are taken from the Indian inscriptions that are found at Boka Onima.